Reading through "Class" by Paul Fussell, going to try to summarize the most important takeaway from each chapter in a tweet and see what comes out. It's focused on American culture and was written in 1983, but comments on general trends/underlying generators.
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Ch 3: Being too neatly dressed signals upper-middle rather than upper class. Some carelessness shows calibrated "go to hell" while clothes/cars that are too new/clean show insecurity. Same with jewelry and fancy watches. Words, even expensive brand, always lower the item's class.
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This chapter spent many paragraphs (quite acerbicly) describing the sorts of clothing that lower and middle class people wear, and was the hardest to glean evergreen principles from. Did my best to summarize, but the chapter was LONG and spent entire pages on just ties and hats.
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