to the list of things that USED to be glamorous and stylish… [airplane travel, train travel, clothes-shopping, going for a drive, getting dressed for class, hosting a party, having a house built, etc] we can add getting a hair cut. Once…it was natural soap, brass, porcelain, ivory-handled razors, and badger hair bristles, a delicate scissor-trim and an expert shave. Now…its the smell of chemicals, the songs of hit radio, and a rough machine purring around your ears. I realize that part of the reason these things have lost their glamour is that modern capitalism has broadened the social group that can access to them. I’m not saying that these activities should have stayed “upper class only”…I guess I’m saying that it should have been the “style” of the wealthy, and not merely their “spending,” that was opened to the middle and working classes.

to the list of things that USED to be glamorous and stylish…

[airplane travel, train travel, clothes-shopping, going for a drive, getting dressed for class, hosting a party, having a house built, etc]

we can add getting a hair cut. Once…it was natural soap, brass, porcelain, ivory-handled razors, and badger hair bristles, a delicate scissor-trim and an expert shave. Now…its the smell of chemicals, the songs of hit radio, and a rough machine purring around your ears.

I realize that part of the reason these things have lost their glamour is that modern capitalism has broadened the social group that can access to them. I’m not saying that these activities should have stayed “upper class only”…I guess I’m saying that it should have been the “style” of the wealthy, and not merely their “spending,” that was opened to the middle and working classes.

to the list of things that USED to be glamorous and stylish… [airplane travel, train travel, clothes-shopping, going for a drive, getting dressed for class, hosting a party, having a house built, etc] we can add getting a hair cut. Once…it was natural soap, brass, porcelain, ivory-handled razors, and badger hair bristles, a delicate scissor-trim and an expert shave. Now…its the smell of chemicals, the songs of hit radio, and a rough machine purring around your ears. I realize that part of the reason these things have lost their glamour is that modern capitalism has broadened the social group that can access to them. I’m not saying that these activities should have stayed “upper class only”…I guess I’m saying that it should have been the “style” of the wealthy, and not merely their “spending,” that was opened to the middle and working classes.

to the list of things that USED to be glamorous and stylish…

[airplane travel, train travel, clothes-shopping, going for a drive, getting dressed for class, hosting a party, having a house built, etc]

we can add getting a hair cut. Once…it was natural soap, brass, porcelain, ivory-handled razors, and badger hair bristles, a delicate scissor-trim and an expert shave. Now…its the smell of chemicals, the songs of hit radio, and a rough machine purring around your ears.

I realize that part of the reason these things have lost their glamour is that modern capitalism has broadened the social group that can access to them. I’m not saying that these activities should have stayed “upper class only”…I guess I’m saying that it should have been the “style” of the wealthy, and not merely their “spending,” that was opened to the middle and working classes.

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