Hoekom jy my haat
New member
Weird question: Is a contrived lack of ostentation ostentatious, in and of itself? Let me give two examples.
What if someone buys a very expensive, flash car, like an upscale BMW or Rolls, but deliberately pays extra for it to be produced with no emblems or hood ornament to identify its brand? I mean, we can all tell a BMW or Rolls, even without the emblems, right?
Or back when I was younger, Lacoste shirts were IT, THE fashion statement. Well, I knew people who would buy a new Lacoste, lay it in the sun to fade it, or even spray it with "Sun In" (a hair lightening spray) and lay it out in the sun. Then when it was sufficiently faded, they'd carefully cut the stitches out of the little alligator, leaving only the faded outline. Of course, they wouldn't prove their lack of status consciousness by cutting the alligator off when NEW, only when it was sufficiently faded enough to leave an outline of the brand emblem.
I think such behaviour, a contrived act to look non-pretentious is the most ostentatious of all. What do you think.
>>>
"Inverted snobbery"... Good term!
>>>>
Pal Nat,
WTF? I'm sure you meant to say something, since you typed all those words, but I could glean no meaning from them.
Try again.
Upon thinking about it, don't bother. I'm not really interested.
What if someone buys a very expensive, flash car, like an upscale BMW or Rolls, but deliberately pays extra for it to be produced with no emblems or hood ornament to identify its brand? I mean, we can all tell a BMW or Rolls, even without the emblems, right?
Or back when I was younger, Lacoste shirts were IT, THE fashion statement. Well, I knew people who would buy a new Lacoste, lay it in the sun to fade it, or even spray it with "Sun In" (a hair lightening spray) and lay it out in the sun. Then when it was sufficiently faded, they'd carefully cut the stitches out of the little alligator, leaving only the faded outline. Of course, they wouldn't prove their lack of status consciousness by cutting the alligator off when NEW, only when it was sufficiently faded enough to leave an outline of the brand emblem.
I think such behaviour, a contrived act to look non-pretentious is the most ostentatious of all. What do you think.
>>>
"Inverted snobbery"... Good term!
>>>>
Pal Nat,
WTF? I'm sure you meant to say something, since you typed all those words, but I could glean no meaning from them.
Try again.
Upon thinking about it, don't bother. I'm not really interested.