explaining the "old money aesthetic"

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• KA

  @katemunson1198 · 4 years ago

  I love the „old money“ look but people definitely forget that most inherited wealth was made through SUPER harsh and exploitative labor conditions, union busting, and slavery

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• LA

  @laurapinto6204 · 4 years ago

  the main difference appears to be that when new rich people buy their way into college, it's a scandal. when the old money do it, it's a legacy.

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• JB

  @JB49105 · 4 years ago

  I think we're obsessed with old money because we'll never be old money. There's no limit as to who can be "new money" but old money will always be just those who were born into generational wealth.

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• CA

  @catssica. · 4 years ago

  I liked your point about interior design! Old money has historically meant that people inherit STUFF. Minimalism looks "relaxing" or "luxurious" only in a modern standard, but it is definitely a mark of new money rather than old

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• CH

  @ChrisBrooks34 · 4 years ago

  It's interesting that for the rich they can get away with being sloppiness and it read as a sign of not caring or having to much money to care. But being poor and sloppy is a sign of bad breeding or being really gross. Of someone with no taste

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• EL

  @elizabethanne8729 · 4 years ago

  There is a saying in the vintage fashion community that says, “vintage style, not vintage values” meaning that one may have an affinity towards the styles of the past without espousing the regressive values accompanying those outfits and hairstyles.

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• M.

  @m.m.2310 · 4 years ago

  The movie Titanic first introduced me to this concept of "old vs new" rich. The "new rich" lady was the only one that was nice to Jack. She was also the only one upset about leaving her husband behind while on a lifeboat, probably cause she married for love instead of for money and the family name, like Rose was supposed to.

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• QU

  @Quarter_Turn · 4 years ago (edited)

  I was always told that “old money” families dressed in neutrals because they understood that being ostentatious would agitate the lower classes, who might threaten to disrupt the hierarchy.

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• TR

  @TrademarkMoxie · 4 years ago (edited)

  The fact that the female side of the "old money" esthetic was born from a desire to look "smart" and not sexualize yourself makes it seems alot more appealing to me. Under normal circumstances if someone told me I dressed like a rich white lady id be deeply offended but I am down to appropriate the look of a 50s/60s era college girl attending some prestigious school and trying to change the world.

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• DA

  @daabhaiwala · 4 years ago

  As a Canadian, the fact that you can get into a university because your parents went there is ABSURD to me. Like, dystopian alternate reality absurd

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• LI

  @Lia-ll3ou · 4 years ago (edited)

  it needs to be said: Mina you are killing it with the topic related outfits every video

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• HA

  @haniseokchan · 4 years ago

  I remember when The Corpse Bride introduced me to the "Old Money" and "New Money" situation, I remember Victor's family, a newly rich family and Victoria's family, an old money family marrying off their daughter to a new money family in hopes of retaining their former glory since they've lost all their money and Victor's family marrying their son off of an old money family in hopes of getting in the high society, though the old and new money aspect of the movie wasn't showed enough, It did help me get an idea as to what old and new money is.

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