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For someone who hasn't ever associated with members of the middle/lower class you seem to feel very happy about making sweeping statements about what they would and would not like to do. Where does your experience come from that makes you feel suitably informed to make these statements?
I know many lower and middle class people that love an excuse to get dressed up and look smart. I also know many upper class people that would certainly not judge someone for what school they went to, the accent they talked in etc.
To be fair seeing the picture in contest I'm not sure many would.
But that doesn't answer my question of why you feel in a position to make sweeping rationalisations about people you do not understand or know.
TBH First thing that springs to mind for me is blue shirt/white collar and red tie = twat.
He obviously isn't too loaded either or he'd have been to a tailor and got himself a waistcoat that fitted.
Working class and Welsh here :wave:
Whereas yes on the surface I'd consider those guys (they ARE guys right? The joke isn't they're all post-op trannies is it??) to be 'posh', I wouldn't consider them to be 'wankers' purely on the basis of their apparent social class. I don't see higher/lower class to be a negative thing so why should I label them that way?
It certainly suggests a lack of colour co-ordination...
Mind you half of the aristos I met were scruffy buggers.
Nah, like MoK said, the first thing I'd think is "shitty tailoring". Firstly, a Winchester shirt, red tie and morning dress simply is not cricket. The chap on the left needs a top hat that actually fits him as he looks like a pubescent boy at a wedding, the guy in the middle, aside from some atrocious co-ordination looks about one glass of champagne away from bursting out of that waistcoat and the last one seriously needs to reconsider the purchase (or hire?) of that revolting cream waistcoat (unless the colours on the photo have come out wrong). I personally find that only men of a fuller figure can pull off waistcoats well otherwise they just hang and look bad. But then again I wouldn't consider myself working class. That's just what I thought on first inspection. They need to get themselves down to Saville Row / Jermyn Street sharpish.
We're not all as judgemental as you.
Incidentally, which one is you?
...and why does Professor Frink have an umbrella up when noone else in the entire photo does? Does he have some form of Solar urticaria?
The rich, champagne-drinking, know-nothing liberals who run this country enjoy having their snoughts in the trough, and they don't want anyone else to have a taste of how they live. So they've introduced rubbish policies to destroy social mobility. They've got rid of grammar schools. They've introduced anti-marriage policies. They've rigged the tax system in such a way that parents make more money if they're seperated than stay together. I could go on, but you get the gist of what I'm saying. Until this rabble is cleared out from our establishment, Britain will continue to languish in the international league of social mobility.
I'd laugh my tits off if it was camp umbrella boy
Have you never been to black tie events, weddings etc then, since those types of clothes are very common at many events and I always thought that went across the board of classes.
Ok I'll give you that the umbrella is a bit strange, but I'd say geeky to that rather than anything else and being a geek myself does kinda make me laugh.
It also depends on the event. Balls wear dinner suits rather than tails so top hats don't exist, wedding etiquete says hats aren't worn, but there is a time and a place for every outfit.
maybe, but I take it Jomery was in the Royal Enclosure there and not the general admissions. In the Royal Enclosure there is a strict dress code of top hat and tails and you will be turned away if you're not dressed like that. There is obviously something to be said for the outfit though because the numbers of people wearing tails in the general admissions enclosure this year was far greater than in the past as well. Ascot is a Royal event and as such it is only correct that a formal "posh" dress code should be adopted imo.
I look at the pic and think - 'It's not that funny what you're wearing. They're probably doped up on sugar from their Mr Kipling mini Battenberg cakes.'
Again, SO twee. They look as much fun as someone pouring acid on my genitals.