1976 E. E. Baskett iii. 29 Dressed in the most tattered rags I had ever seen (not ‘hippie chic’; I mean real rags), as bad as one encounters on skid row.
1996 7 Mar. a10 (heading) Sally Brampton reports on a revitalised mix from the inventors of hippy chic.
2002 June 26/2 What fashion trends [are] in at the moment—hippy chic or rock chick?