Reply #5: CLASS is a fabulous book. [View All]

[Manifestor_of_Light]

It has hilarious illustrations of things like "prole jacket-gap" (used car salesman has gap between shirt collar and jacket of his suit).

Apparently I have upper-middle class values (really into culture & education), and was raised on a lower-middle class income.

Fussell talks about how Old Money inherits its houses, furniture and clothes, such as cashmere coats and strings of pearls, and New Money is flashy and wants the new, rather than valuing the old. So I must be Old Money. I inherited a cashmere coat and a string of pearls.

I have an upper-middle class education, and no job and no health insurance. So what the hell does that mean? :wtf: