Overdressed and status symbols

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Anonymous wrote:New money. Poor things.

Not at all. These people are just rich. Some may be newly rich in that last decade but most were well to do growing up and are just rich. It is how they dress no different than if you were in some small town in Texas where every guy had on jeans and boots and either a ball cap or cowboy hat. It is not new money it is their uniform so that they can communicate to other similar people. I agree I hate the sameness but they are who they are.

NP. The ones I’m thinking of are very new money and yes I agree with the above tend to be from rural Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas, Louisiana and some other southern small towns in Louisiana. It’s not old money at all. Definitely new money. Whatever to each your own.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty rare in the DC area. People here think it’s sophisticated and “old money” to dress in the most boring clothes and jewelry imaginable. Anything trendy is dismissed as “new money” or trashy.

old money means wasp. White Anglo saxon protestants. No as a rule they are not flashy. They also do not really exist anymore outside of some areas of New England.

Nope. There are very preppy old money types across the country. Private schools, not flashy, little make up. Yes even Florida has old money types (not flashy Palm Beach types but actual preppy old money).

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My DD wear van cleef knockoffs. Same pattern (looks like cheap costume jewelry). Like $20 for the set…. Hopefully that’s what you’re seeing, because otherwise, GAG.

[Anonymous]

I love a Cartier stack with a platinum wedding ring. Bag-wise Bottega all the way. Clothes would depend on if coming from work or not. Why not look great? What's the big deal?

Also, to those of you using the term "new money" in 2023, just stop. Do you mean old money like Paris Hilton? lol.

"Old money" is pretty much gone and the big new money is in entertainment, oil and tech.

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Wear whatever tick tok tells you.

Lots of midriffs in our private school. No dress code of course.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty rare in the DC area. People here think it’s sophisticated and “old money” to dress in the most boring clothes and jewelry imaginable. Anything trendy is dismissed as “new money” or trashy.

old money means wasp. White Anglo saxon protestants. No as a rule they are not flashy. They also do not really exist anymore outside of some areas of New England.

Nah they are allllll over DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love a Cartier stack with a platinum wedding ring. Bag-wise Bottega all the way. Clothes would depend on if coming from work or not. Why not look great? What's the big deal?

Also, to those of you using the term "new money" in 2023, just stop. Do you mean old money like Paris Hilton? lol.

"Old money" is pretty much gone and the big new money is in entertainment, oil and tech.

New money means you did not grow up wealthy and thus are now flashy with your “new money.” That’s what they are referring to as being new. New to them.

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I’m in the family office world, lots of money around.

Btw, feel free to move to Miami where half the private schools are filled with MLB and NFL family kids. Party central. And tons of money.

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I bid on Stings guitar at our private school auction in NYC years ago. good times!
Is he evil New Money for our identity label folks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bid on Stings guitar at our private school auction in NYC years ago. good times!
Is he evil New Money for our identity label folks?

New money means you didn’t grow up with it so you tend to be more flashy and showy with it. Not a bad thing necessarily. Lots of entrepreneurs and self made people are new money. But it does often explain a flashy person.

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Anonymous wrote:Agree that it's new money but also guarantee it's people from places like rural PA, Ohio and Wisconsin who come from small towns where this is how you show how great you are. They are insecure and shallow.

People confident in themselves, are not confident because they have a lot of jewelry.

Or they like jewelry. WGAF?

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Anonymous wrote:Have kids at a cathedral school. We see a bit everything. I'm a middle of the road dresser but appreciate those who make an effort, even the more outlandishly clad. I don't judge. Who cares what anyone else wears? I personally am not into Van Cleef but am into other expensive brands that others may not appreciate or understand. It would be soooo boring if we all dressed the same.

Exactly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pretty rare in the DC area. People here think it’s sophisticated and “old money” to dress in the most boring clothes and jewelry imaginable. Anything trendy is dismissed as “new money” or trashy.

old money means wasp. White Anglo saxon protestants. No as a rule they are not flashy. They also do not really exist anymore outside of some areas of New England.

Nah they are allllll over DC.

And the closer in northwestern suburbs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love a Cartier stack with a platinum wedding ring. Bag-wise Bottega all the way. Clothes would depend on if coming from work or not. Why not look great? What's the big deal?

Also, to those of you using the term "new money" in 2023, just stop. Do you mean old money like Paris Hilton? lol.

"Old money" is pretty much gone and the big new money is in entertainment, oil and tech.

New money means you did not grow up wealthy and thus are now flashy with your “new money.” That’s what they are referring to as being new. New to them.

Yes I know what it means but the term is outdated. Old money is no longer conservative and the money no longer lasts. The gap between wealthy and huge money has dramatically widened. Real money is in tech, oil, and entertainment. Rest assured they are flashy even second generation or more. Even generations old money isn't conservative any more - Paris Hilton is as flashy as it gets.. Just say "flashy."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bid on Stings guitar at our private school auction in NYC years ago. good times!
Is he evil New Money for our identity label folks?

New money means you didn’t grow up with it so you tend to be more flashy and showy with it. Not a bad thing necessarily. Lots of entrepreneurs and self made people are new money. But it does often explain a flashy person.

Not anymore. The whole "new money" term is outdated.