Lots of upper middle class folks buy to be seen. They want people to know they have a $600 purse or something. It has no meaning to the rich class, but middle class always think they need to appear to be rich.
They want people to know they have a $600 purse or something. It has no meaning to the rich class, but middle class always think they need to appear to be rich.
This is very true.
My dad's family members were all factory workers (well, the successful ones were factory workers. The others remained hillbilly trailer park denizens). My dad was the only one from the family to go to college. He talked about how both of his parents were very image conscious. They saved up so the kids would have nice clothings, they always had a decent car, etc. Nothing extravagant, just more money going into visual stuff than they probably should have.
Once my dad got to be successful in his own career, he never cared about any of those things, and he saved a ton of money as a result.
I think cars are the only thing I could ever actually recognize as "luxury brand" since their shape is so obvious and uncommon. Purses? Coats? Shoes? I don't even know what fancy expensive versions of those things look like, they're all just competing with, and showing off to, people who already know what they're looking at. What an alien existence.
Lots of upper middle class folks buy to be seen. They want people to know they have a $600 purse or something. It has no meaning to the rich class, but middle class always think they need to appear to be rich.
This is very true.
My dad's family members were all factory workers (well, the successful ones were factory workers. The others remained hillbilly trailer park denizens). My dad was the only one from the family to go to college. He talked about how both of his parents were very image conscious. They saved up so the kids would have nice clothings, they always had a decent car, etc. Nothing extravagant, just more money going into visual stuff than they probably should have.
Once my dad got to be successful in his own career, he never cared about any of those things, and he saved a ton of money as a result.
I think cars are the only thing I could ever actually recognize as "luxury brand" since their shape is so obvious and uncommon. Purses? Coats? Shoes? I don't even know what fancy expensive versions of those things look like, they're all just competing with, and showing off to, people who already know what they're looking at. What an alien existence.
From what I've seen, it's a very well made version of something you would find common.