Thursday, January 25, 2024
Zombie Outbreak
The business suit once set the comfortably affluent apart from the proles. Paul Fussell, indispensable analyst of class signals, wrote in his 1984 book Class: “the suit ‘not only flatters the inactive, it deforms the laborious.’ (And the athletic or strenuously muscular: Arnold Schwarzenegger looks especially comic in a suit.) For this reason the suit…was a prime weapon in the nineteenth-century war of the bourgeoisie against the proletariat.”
