Hmm...

[ksmith]

So yesterday, justinelavaworm discussed a panel she and matociquala, among others, participated in during which discussions of class were attempted/danced around/not quite followed through on. Then I saw this line in today's entry in Jane Espenson's blog:

You know how, in this country, the most visible, and most reliable, indicator of a person's social class is the condition of their teeth?

and I started thinking about outward indications of social class.

Not sure about teeth. A former manager, who came from upper-middle PacNorWet money, had one of the worst sets of choppers I had ever seen. But then, he had a casual attitude about a lot of things, including money. In a way, this casualness typed him as surely as Jane's perfect teeth.

Hands are supposed to be another indicator--their condition and the style of manicure. Shoes. Hair style. Weight.

I don't have time to go into this now, and I'm not sure what I'd say if I did except that I find it all pretty interesting.

Comments

[torrilin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the problem in my case is they really can't do anything to functionally correct the overbite. They can make my teeth look more even, but the overbite is a deeper structural issue, since I just don't have the teeth I'd need to make things even. Like a lot of things with my skeleton, it's badly designed *just* enough to drive doctors nuts, and not badly enough that any repair attempts will do much besides hurt a lot without actually making things better for me.