Douglas_Knight comments on Why Real Men Wear Pink - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 06 August 2009 07:02:20PM 5 points [-]

the middle class is terrified of wearing lower class clothes, but the rich are so obviously not lower class that they can get away with it

This is called "countersignaling."