[lbo-talk] Queen for a Day: My Gay Makeover

[JBrown72073 at cs.com]

>Poor neighborhoods have more nail
>salons than rich ones - partly because it's an inexpensive business to
>run and to start, but also because poor women who can't go to restaurants,
>buy fancy clothes, etc, can still get their nails done. Agree with those 
posters
>who have suggested that for (white) men, fussing with nails and products
>is associated with yuppie prosperity, but I think for women it's another 
story
>altogether.
>
>Liza 

Of course there's entertainment value, but nails are very much a marker of 
whether you do manual labor or not--proving you don't, even when you do.  I 
think the class content has overwhelmed the aesthetics, not to mention 
convenience.  Women who are assumed not to do manual labor don't have to work so hard to 
look like they don't.

Jenny Brown