A Class Apart

For my In Retrospect Issue 07 lead article I contemplate the social classes of the original owners of vintage clothing and the dark secrets that lie behind them.

I’m sorry to start off by waxing lyrical on a political nature, it’s something I rarely do. However it’s become very clear to me that the social class divide we currently find ourselves in is widening, and hasn’t been this bad since Victorian times. This is a worldwide problem as well, and not just experienced by our own fair island. However, unlike Victorian society, the gap is no longer between the lower/working class and the middle and upper classes, it is an ever-widening gap between the middle classes, specially the lower-middle and upper-middle. And it comes down to this: there are those of us who live within our means and survive on a daily basis, and there are those that have money and are unaware of any real struggle life throws down.

You can read the full article here: https://inretrospectmagazine.com/article/a-class-apart/

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