What’s something that screams ‘I’m broke, but trying to look rich’

[Booyakashaa]

Saw thing on Instagram threads, mostly Americans, would love to see what MN’ers think

Just for fun

I think…anything Michael Kors

Or Maybe they’re looking and thinking ‘what a trampy slob?’ Who knows what anyone is thinking. When we claim to, it’s often a projection of ourselves to be honest.

Or indeed the people they fawn over and aspire to emulate. Nothing gives away a person's own insecurity over their wealth and class as much as preoccupation with that of others.

How are we defining broke?

Indeed. We can put it alongside the many Mn threads where someone proclaims ‘old money whispers, new money shouts’ and follows it up with some delightful anecdote about the ghastly new people in the village with their white, shiny car, fake tan, Dubai holidays and brash ways, who thought that the local Duke (holey elbows, dog-haired ancient estate car, hail fellow well met to all) was a tramp until they heard him being addressed as Your Grace.

Yes, indeed. The cliches about wealthy people make me cringe a lot. As if wealthy old-money folks wearing threadbare clothes and being miserly is something to admire.

Wow, a 'tramp stamp'. I'm not the greatest Michael Kors fan, but that really is a.mean sentiment.

What is gained by posting something like this?
Absolutely nothing but a good excuse for a good old bitch eh??
Grow up.

Live Laugh Love type people.

Its a weird British thing

The desperation of some to be seen as middle class on MN is as alive as ever 🙄

Or maybe.... just maybe, some people find things appealing that you do not?

A thread full of judgy bitches.

Any orange under 25 something, with a huge fake designer bag (the size of a small country) wedged in the crook of her elbow, with her hand pointing upwards……in that really irritating way!

I used to buy their stuff a lot - climbing / walking.

The stuff I still have is battered and comfy, but I won't shell out for new items from them now.

Same happened to Joules. I had loads of riding gear which was great quality, but then it went to shit with people wearing it who had never set foot in a field and the quality tanked.

My son worked for an oil company got amazing jackets he gave me one. A bit big but amazing in bad weather.

A Mercedes.

Yeah, his Grace is in muddy wellies and 30 years old Barbour jacket during the day, but in the evening he wears his Saville Row suit and goes to places 99.9% of the population have no access. People are stupid to think that 'old money' does not flaunt wealth, they do it but in a way that is invisible to majority of people because they have no real access to them.

🤣🤣🤣😅

Yep. That was the funniest post I've read since the chicken feeding a family for a week.

Particularly in a recession, depression or crunchity munchity people will tend to spend any surplus on making themselves look or feel good.

Luxury goods manufacturers never fare as badly in hard times as many cheaper sellers.

I agree worshipping "old money" in this way is stupid. I agree it's hugely naive to assume anything just because someone wears a scruffy jumper and some well worn boots. They don't deserve our worship or emulation just because of the fortune of their birth. Buying stuff that you feel is an "old money" marker objectively is no better or worse than buying stuff that is a "new money" marker. You have bought into the idea that wealth (whatever it's origins -.slave trade, drug deals , work place bullying, chance) makes someone "better"

But it is also silly and comical to purchase things to try and emulate a footballers wives type lifestyle and to think that makes you somehow better. And those LV bags are a good example, they aren't remotely nice to look at, so it's quite clear they are purchased for aspirational reasons. Same as the majority of people who buy a car that is too big for their driveway /the average parking space. Very few of the people I known with enormous cars actually need them. And they seem to largely be a huge inconvenience to them as it causes them huge stress whenever they need to park anywhere.

It would be lovely if we could all just agree that the value of someone is not based in their wealth so we don't need to seek to worship or emulate it. We could just buy what we like or need without worrying what it signifies. Of course this would be a disaster for all the companies that make money out of feeding our desire for status and approval. But it would be great for the environment and bank balances.

Bev Skeggs said that poverty is written on the body, ever since I heard that I've agreed with it, which is actually incredibly sad.
That is the tell, not clothing, imo.

I'm confused

How is that trying to look rich?

I have a Schoffel puffer..... Thrifted too. But now I don't know it is seen as a good or bad thing as if you are rich and want to look poor you wear one. 😂

@HRTQueen
Its a weird British thing

I agree! Not being British and reading this thread, has been quite an eye opener. So many posters seem so shallow.

What makes you think that people who buy an item with a designer label think they're better than other people, though? Because that's not my experience at all. I know quite a few young women who buy designer handbags and wear visible labels, but will happily tell you that got it from vinted. They have these things because its a style and look they like, not because they want to appear better than other people.
The idea that certain looks and styles make you socially superior is far more commonly found amongst those who self identify as middle class, who see their 'quiet good taste' as a signifier of their status.
Tbh the whole thread seems to me to be a lot of projection onto less well off and working class people the pretentions and insecurities of the aspiring middle class.

Crooked teeth all piled up on top of each other whitened to the point you need sunglasses if confronted with them.

Stop with the whitener, save up for braces.

It's not. It's just an excuse to be mean about things they don't like. It's incomprehensible for them to see that others may like things they don't.