[lit-ideas] Re: Just a cigar?

  • From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:30:31 -0400

Exactly.  In the 20th century the upper classes emulate the lower classes. 
Historically, however, the lower classes emulated the upper classes.  Was
not the whole point of the sumptuary laws to keep people in their place? 
The verbal slumming of the late 19th century may have been the first bit of
daylight in that stasis.  Or it may have been something else.  Economically
or politically there may be similarity with today, but the social order is
very different, including rich attempting to look like poor in their
clothes and possibly their language (cool slang, etc.).

 


> [Original Message]
> From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 10/17/2006 5:42:11 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Just a cigar?
>
> In (non-serious) opposition, there is the matter of jeans.
>
> Andy Amago wrote:
>
> >Usually the lower classes emulate the upper (sumptuary laws for
> >example).  
> >  
> >
>
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