Psychohistorian comments on Why Real Men Wear Pink - Less Wrong

51 Post author: Yvain 06 August 2009 07:39AM

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Comment author: cousin_it 06 August 2009 08:35:14AM *  6 points [-]

Are you saying that rich white kids adopted ghetto fashion before poor white kids did? Doesn't ring very true to me.

Comment author: Psychohistorian 06 August 2009 06:32:32PM *  10 points [-]

There's a difference between poor, middle-class, and rich. The idea is that the middle class want to mimic the rich to look higher status. The rich don't want the middle class to get away with it. The rich can mimic the poor and not be taken for being poor but the middle class can't, so the rich steal the poor's fashion.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 August 2011 11:30:26AM 3 points [-]

This works with signalling about values as well.

Comment author: TraderJoe 25 April 2012 01:07:26PM *  0 points [-]

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