Jailhouse Chic

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Tue Jun 13 13:52:27 PDT 2000



>Didn't Veblen write about the rich emulating the styles of the very poor,
>since the very poor and the rich were the only two classes with excessive
>leisure?

Whatever the causal link, the phenomenon of the rich dressing down as the poor is one of many interesting features in Paul Theroux's underrated dystopian novel _The O-Zone_.

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