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"Toffs and Toughs", showing class divides between children in the UK, 1937 (media.kbin.social)
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[-] Hegar@kbin.social 18 points 10 months ago

The three 'toughs' are still wearing collared shirts, jackets and at least 1 has a vest. Could it be upper class wear vs middle class wear? Or upper class formal vs casual?

Can anyone with more knowledge of clothing or class from the time weigh in?

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 36 points 10 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toffs_and_Toughs

School clothes, plus the fact that most clothing of the period looks more 'formal' than we're used to.

[-] Guest_User@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

And certainly less laundered

[-] athos77@kbin.social 24 points 10 months ago

Ian Jack had criticised this title since Salmon, Catlin, and Young were not especially poor or disreputable but merely part of the respectable working-class majority of the time.

[-] sunbytes@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

The "tough" children have shoes too. That's a really expensive thing to keep kids in as they grow (pre-mass production)

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