LizzieMaine
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One of the interesting things I've noticed about class distinction in clothing is that when I was growing up working-class, great, great store was laid on wearing the proper clothing for the proper occasion. You might wear grimy overalls at your job, but you wouldn't think of going out in the street wearing them, because you didn't want to give a bad impression of yourself. It was very important for kids to wear clean, neat clothing to school -- which you would change out of instantly on getting home because you had "school clothes" and "play clothes," and wearing your play clothes to school was absolutely verboten. Working class folk tended to put great store in these rules, more so in fact than the middle-class: a lot of the middle class kids I knew thought it was funny that I changed my clothes every afternoon, but they didn't understand that the good clothes had to last the whole year and running around playing in the street with them on was wasteful.
I think it's a sign of how demoralized the working class has become in modern times that nobody seems to care anymore -- wearing good clothes and trying to make a good impression doesn't seem to get you respect from the culture anymore, so to hell with it. Bring on the Dr. Dentons and the sweatpants.
I think it's a sign of how demoralized the working class has become in modern times that nobody seems to care anymore -- wearing good clothes and trying to make a good impression doesn't seem to get you respect from the culture anymore, so to hell with it. Bring on the Dr. Dentons and the sweatpants.
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