Editing Sloane Ranger (section)

==Origin==

The coinage came from Martina (Tina) Margetts,<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/3634284/Ann-Barr-The-woman-who-invented-Sloanes.html|title=Ann Barr: The woman who invented Sloanes|first=Cassandra|last=Jardine|date=4 October 2007 }}</ref> a sub-editor on ''Harpers & Queen'' who worked (with fellow sub-editor Laura Pank) on the{{explain|date=February 2024}} 1975 article.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/dec/03/architecture.communities|title=The battle for Sloane Square|first=Stephen|last=Bayley|newspaper=The Observer |date=3 December 2006|via=The Guardian}}</ref> In her early twenties she had found herself amongst this social group while undertaking a course on fine art at the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]].

Initially, the term "Sloane Ranger" was used mostly in reference to women, a particular archetype being [[Diana, Princess of Wales]]. However, the term now usually includes men. A male Sloane has also been referred to as a "[[Rah (slang)|Rah]]" and by the older term "[[Hooray Henry]]".<ref>{{cite news|title=On the trail of London's Sloane Rangers|work=The New York Times|date=25 March 1984|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9C04EFD81139F936A15750C0A962948260}}</ref>

Although Sloanes are nowadays supposedly more widely spread and amorphous than in the past, they are still perceived to socialise in the expensive areas of west London, most notably [[King's Road]],<ref name="Independent 19940102">{{cite news|last=Slot|first=Owen|title=Same Sloanes, new Range: Ten years after their handbook was a bestseller, Owen Slot finds Caroline and Henry are still doing OK, Yah|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/same-sloanes-new-range-ten-years-after-their-handbook-was-a-bestseller-owen-slot-finds-caroline-and-henry-are-still-doing-ok-yah-1397455.html|work=The Independent|access-date=20 December 2011|date=2 January 1994}}</ref> [[Fulham Road]], [[Kensington High Street]], and other areas of [[Kensington]], [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]] and [[Fulham]]. The pubs and nightclubs in these areas are popular with Sloanes, {{Citation needed|date=April 2009}} in particular the [[The White Horse, Fulham|White Horse]] pub, known as the "Sloaney Pony" in Fulham, and Admiral Codrington, known as "The Cod", in Chelsea.<ref name="Independent 19940102" />

In 2015, [[Peter York]] argued that the Sloane population has been winnowed and that Sloanes were more likely to be leading the British trend to downward social mobility.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/sound-and-vision/the-fall-of-the-sloane-rangers-made-in-chelsea|title=The fall of the Sloane Rangers - Prospect Magazine}}</ref> In 2023, ''[[Tatler]]'' announced that it was time for the Sloane Rangers to "step aside" for the [[Bopeas]], or Bohemian Peasants, a term and social theory describing downwardly mobile elite embracing a "rural life of making, brewing, fermenting and foraging".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Delaney |first=Evie |date=2023-11-17 |title=On England's pleasant pastures seen: Rural rules the roost in the new class of bohemian peasants or 'Bopeas' |url=https://www.tatler.com/article/bopea-cultural-movement-bohemian-peasants-king-charles-rewilding-fermenters |access-date=2024-11-11 |website=Tatler |language=en-GB}}</ref>