![]() ![]() Therefore, even the upper class or the lower class who appreciate fine clothes will dress well. Fussell does not consider the fact that some people may have an interest in clothes. Badly dressed can be either upper class (who are very secure of themselves) or lower class. Is it really lower class to be well-dressed? Do you associate messiness with the Rockefellers, Pews, DuPonts, Mellons, Fords, and Vanderbilts? I can see a new and neat Men's Wearhouse suit looking middle-class-but can't envision the same from Kiton, etc. ![]() It's a mark of the middle class to be concerned about this passage, but I still take issue with these claims. 'Dear boy, you're almost too well dressed to be a gentleman,' Neil Mackwood, author of Debrett's In and Out (1980), imagines an upper-class person addressing someone in the middle class, as if the speaker were implying that the addressee is not a gent but a model, a floorwalker, or an actor." "Too careful means low-at least middle-class, perhaps prole. When tied askew, as if carelessly or incompetently, the effect is upper-middle or even, if sufficiently inept, upper. If neatly tied, centered, and balanced, the effect is middle-class. The deployment of the male bowtie is an illustration. The perfect shirt collar, the too neatly tied necktie knot, the anxious over attention to dry cleaning-all betray the wimp. "aboring to present yourself scrupulously clean and neat suggests that you're worried about status slippage and that you care terribly what your audience thinks, both low signs. ![]()
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