What is this my Son Tom

Macaroni

Our wise Forefathers would exprys
Ev'n Sensibility in Dress;
The modern Race delight to Shew
What Folly in Excess can do;

The honest Farmer come to Town,
Can scarce believe his Son his own;
If thus the Taste continues Here,
What will it be another Year?

No matter what it was, it didn't have anything on this dude.

hat tip: Lucy's Drowning