[lbo-talk] "Nothing is too good for the working class" (Was : "Vuitton-clad official spouts socialism")

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Dec 14 14:55:02 PST 2007


On Dec 14, 2007, at 5:44 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:


> As (I think it was) Aneurin Bevan said, nothing is too
> good for the working class. Why shouldn't the
> proletariat wear Prada? Who gave the Devil a monopoly
> on fine clothes? Fuck the Mao suit and the jeans,
> Vuitton for all!

I'm all for that but a lot of the appeal of fashion is as a positional good - if the masses had it, it'd be no fun anymore.



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