Ironically, after it came to refer to a certain aesthetic style, members of the more economically privileged urban middle class have embraced it as well. They treat this "local yet exotic culture" as a game of dress-up in which they put on night-market flip-flops, a loud Hawaiian shirt, and bright shorts, and romantically imagine themselves as salt-of-the-earth "Taike."
諷刺的是，「台客」被建構成一種美學風格後，經濟資本相對優渥的都會中產階級，如今也把「台」當成一種唾手可得的「內部異國情調」，一種變裝遊戲，藉著腳踏藍白拖鞋，搭配夏威夷衫與鮮豔短褲，想像自己也是一個生性浪漫的「台客」。