Vineyard Vines! - Page 6

I mostly agree. People at the top of the lower class feel that being perceived as middle class is within their grasp. And people at the bottom of the middle class are constantly fearful they could easily slip down and be perceived as lower class. Thus people in this general group are the most likely to be concerned with the appearance of status. I read a study a few years back confirming this. It showed that this lower (but not poor) income group spends more on clothing (as a percentage of their budget) than any other group. The study compared things like amount spend on clothing vs. other necessities such as food, housing, transportation, etc. You're right, rich people do spend more on clothing. But they spend far less on clothing than do lower income families relative to the other basic necessities. Thus it is likely that lower income people are more concerned about expressing status through their clothing than are the rich. In this sense I'd say they value clothing more-- a far more interesting point of discussion than talking about whom spends the most in absolute dollars.

for the past 10 years i would definitely agree. dunno about the rest.

why tell me you read a study and then not link it? you think i'm too poor for jstor? ebscohost? sciencedirect? real class is being able to read studies and then link to them. gimme dat doi nigga.

I think there is some understating of the influence of the rich, as aristocratic styles have always been aped. That said, peasant revolutionaries came up with the trouser (although noted British dandy Beau Brummell popularized it), jeans were carried around the world by sailors, miners and stevedores transform the top half of the union suit into the t-shirt, and so on.

still waiting for OP to make his presence felt again, lurking in the shadows

Reginald, could you, or anyone, recommend a good history of -type book on the subject? Sort of a hidden why we wear what we wear kind of affair?

No idea dude. I basically just randomly google things when I feel like being less ignorant.

pants (really, knit ones) might have been invented before peasants existed. they were definitely popular among germanic "barbarian" tribes that attacked rome because romans wrote about them. unless you're talking about the wool type of pants people wear today in which case i know nothing.

In his autobiography The Kid Stays In the Picture, producer Robert Evans reveals how his brother's company, Evan-Picone, convinced a nation of women to start wearing pants. (At first it must have seemed as weird as men wearing dresses...)

Now I don't know about you, but it's just that kind of renegade spirit I see in Vineyard Vines.

actually im broke but i want garbage clothes that fit poorly


so ill buy some vineyard vines great thread a+++

What is it you find boring about their winter line? I find the execution rather clever.