Jailhouse Chic

[Carl Remick]

>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_.

Carl
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