Yeah dave but if you were looking at 8 to 10 k a year fees even with repayment the ways it is would you have still considered it? I suppose it depends what you had studied.

So what is the style of the new English elite ?   What do they wear ?

How have they redefined elite signifiers to express their ascendancy  ?

Being professional/managerial sorts is it all about business wear ?   What do they wear off duty ?


Thanks -

/\    Very funny to re-read those. There were no 'Hipsters' as we now know them back then. The East-End was largely dead once more. The pieces were written post-Yuppie (sp?) and the Canary Wharf culture that once was was such an irrelevance by then that I never mentioned it. 'Loadsa Money' was over.

The pieces come from a WestEnd point of view, where I grew up, and so there is a disdain for The City (where in fact my Father's business was in Watling Street, just behind St. Paul's...).

Funny stuff.

And it's all stuff that needs updating. From what Mr. Formby says what I call 'The Men In Black' would seem to be the new elite. Am I right ?  The tribe I dismiss as functionaries took over while the WestEnd fops I celebrate became an irrelevance.

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