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The original "jet set" were those "socialites" who were not shy about publicity and entertained in semi-public places like restaurants and in Night Club s. They were the first generation that might weekend in Paris or fly to Rome just for a party. Federico Fellini captured their lifestyle in '' La Dolce Vita '' (1960). If the expression was not coined by Oleg Cassini , writing for the Hearst Newspaper Syndicate , it was certainly given wide circulation in his Gossip Column .

The term first came into usage circa 1951, when , Capri.


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