The refined art of being just late enough (5 minutes or so) to give the impression that you are a busy, popular person that was held up with other business.
by Anna October 09, 2003
Depending on the type/style of the event fashionably late can also range from 5 minutes (to a dinner date or a small gathering) to 45 minutes-1 hour (21st parties please note that there are also varying categories of 21st parties and discretionary judgement must be exercised). This time frame, or 'cushion', allows enough other people to have already arrived so that it is not only the birthday person and their parents in attendance and also conveys the possibility that you have come from a previous engagement (please refer to above definition).
1 hour late to a dinner party is socially unnacceptable and can protray an undesired tone of self importance however an hour late to a keg party is assumed and will be recognised as being fashionably late (again discretion must be employed to ensure that the beer will not be finished prior to your arrival).
by KateO November 16, 2007
by OhMyGosh...................... September 20, 2011
When you arrive later not because you are late , you show up with style.
You maybe were "doing your makeup" or "dumping an ex" but you are perfectly amazing :3
You maybe were "doing your makeup" or "dumping an ex" but you are perfectly amazing :3
Person 1: "Goddamnit, she just came here?"
Person 2: "wow she is so pretty,"
Person 3: "she is so fashionably late "
Fashionably late
Person 2: "wow she is so pretty,"
Person 3: "she is so fashionably late "
Fashionably late
by (/`•~•`)/ why U lookin here. F October 17, 2018
by tuffytoenails September 14, 2011
The opposite of cumming too soon (premature ejaculation); when a guy is more than able to satisfy his broad by making his deposit late into the fuck fest
by MOCO & P-Phat May 28, 2008
Fashionably Late ,is when you show up to a party 5 minutes late with a Super Model stuck on your cock.......
Look! lee just showed up 5 minutes late with a Super Model stuck on his cock...NOW THATS WHAT I CALL Fashionably Late
by deahtub May 31, 2008