Last edited by Sammy Ambrose (2013-07-29 16:04:54)

When people discuss class, I am never quite sure where they are coming from.  There is the class of money, the class of education, the class of heredity, the class of culture,  the class of style/grooming/taste and the class of manners/morals/form. Maybe I even left a few out.

In any class engine, a person can hit some, but perhaps not all, of these class pistons.

When i discuss class, I am usually discussing the class of style/taste and that's why I can admire someone like Mr. Fish from a low economic and education class but an extremely high taste class.

Now it is probably true that whatever class  you are from will affect how you wear clothes but generally people will know who you are regardless of what and how you wear clothes. That's because manners, accent, values, intelligence, grace, politics etc all go into the soup that makes a person tasty or not to another person.

One personal story. Some banker who spends a lot of time in London said to me that I dress just like the English bankers he deals with. Not wanting to discuss clothes, I tried to laugh it off by saying it was the city boys style and he said, that no it wasnt that brutish crowd but rather the well mannered, Oxbridge intellectuals. Which should tell you that it is possible to mimic something you are not if you approach something honestly instead of denying it.

Completely impossible. You'd like to believe it though I'm sure. All you have is the performance to make your judgements on. As for the actor, how could you possibly know anything ?

I enjoyed a program the other night (it might have been yesterday even, I do lose track of time) about fake personas on dating sites. Some are scammers but many were revealed to be deliberately created by the owners of the sites to manipulate and increase their traffic. Makes sense to me. That's what the Internet is like. It's the home of manipulation.

The more you try to personalise your dislike for my writings the more you buy into them. The game is rigged that way.

Understood & thank you.  The only story I have to tell is my own and my experiences, so the amount of me in them is something I'm stuck with !

(... Plus I delight in going down memory lane...)

I'm always interested in the stories & experiences of others - Mainly because they are usually very different to mine and that's how I learn.  Soggs ought to ramble more - I'd be all ears. His point about me & substance is also very valid - I only care about style. I've got none of the 'meaningful' aspect of style to share beyond my taste just reflecting me doing what I want. Nothing aspirational for me & equally no element of slumming.

Best -