> Working class people, or rather, poor people do not dress well to pass
> for rich. It's just not the way it works. For one thing, they know
> that it wouldn't work. They mostly try to dress well to show their
> pride in themselves -- and to show that they feel this way
> independently of their circumstances.
If I had my copy of LeRoi Jones' _Blues People_ handy (or maybe it's in _Black Music_), I'd quote his section on the late fifties and early sixties r&b groups had names which reflected the aspirations of black people.
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