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I think FL members are not representative of the population at large.
Depends on which forum(s) you visit. The overall membership is almost undoubtedly better versed in the popular culture of the first half of the 20th century than is the population at large. But all of us are living in 2017, like it or not, and all of us speak in dialects that didn't exist in quite the same forms 60-plus years ago.
Some of my working lexicon might be growing archaic, but there is little affected in it. "Gussied up" is THE right phrase in certain contexts. I suspect that people unfamiliar with it -- younger people, presumably, and those from other lands -- would deduce its meaning from those contexts.
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