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“I’m crying in my room / Everything is foggy around me / She goes with a posh boy / She has a white Ford Fiesta / And a yellow sweater“. In early 1985, thanks to the single ‘Devuélveme a mi chica’ included in his first album, G men bring the number of posh closer to the masses. Previously, in 1966, the writer Juan Marsé already named Manolo Reyes, one of the protagonists of ‘Last afternoons with Teresa’, says Pijoaparte. However, through that song, David Summers It came down to the next generation because it was the first to use the term in isolation to describe that part of the city that, in the frenzy of La Movida, imposed a marked English accent, moved around the city on a motorcycle and dressed in clothes with pants, feathers. and moccasins these are part of the young italian paninari.
Some time later, in the first decade of the 2000s, the RAE will define it as a Derogatory adjectives and adverbs which refers to people who, “in their dress, manners, language, etc., reflect the typical tastes of a rich social class“. But what is popular in “posh”, in fact, has very deep roots: the universe symbolizes the change of love and the fine line between let it seem in society their inequality has been part of our nation’s DNA since Galdosian times. Although Hombres G only made the term fashionable, his influence helped cement an image that, decades later, still offers many meanings.
in repetition ‘I want to and I can’t. History of the posh people of Spain, which will hit bookstores next Wednesday from Blackie Books, Raquel Peláez, journalist and deputy director of S Moda, analyzes with deep analysis and trenchant look at two centuries of Spanish history through the miseries, magnificence and rigors of its high class. Without leaving aside, of course, those who submit (and still submit) to the idea of money emulationintroduced by the American philosopher Thorstein Veblen at the end of the 19th century: a process that led the humblest strata to eat in an effort to imitating leaders.
“What has caught my attention the most while working on the book is the different perceptions about posh. Depending on where you grew up or your environment, for example, you will have a different opinion about it. Therefore, it is very difficult to explain it,” said the writer. “It’s easy to associate with the urban style of the eighties and nineties, but what we consider posh today is completely different. ungraspable Although we think that this is someone from the upper class, or someone who looks like, wants to be, or acts as if they are, the vision is different depending on the perspective of each person. In the last pages I also The testimony of twelve men from above and from among the above, and he was surprised that each one understood it in a different way.”
And he added: “Today, the word posh goes beyond those who, at eighty years old, who seem to come from a good family, They wear pastel colors and they become caricatures of themselves. Now, many associate the word posh with money. If the RAE were to update its definition tomorrow, it would probably add a second meaning that includes ‘and, in addition, you have money’. We live in a society where Representation is important and there are many ways to build symbolic worlds around yourself, from the culture and places you frequent to the people you interact with. So it’s very easy to pretend you have that purchasing power. “
With the weapon of data, “Avoid jokes and jokes,” Peláez has taken four years to design more than 300 pages in which such fascinating characters as an aristocrat and a professional of French culture. Eugenia de Montijo, the first “commoner” to own a Vuittonor those toys from the sixties that, coming from a wealthy family, could afford a Fender. There is also room for cartoon couples like the one that the idiot has created Luis Ortiz and Gunilla von Bismarck who work as soldiers of the Marbella “plane system”, and for the events that took place today will cause a real earthquake on social networks. Without further ado, date when Isabel Preysler appeared on the cover of Hello! come with him and be small Tamara Falco (an example of nationalism in the 21st century) to show Villa Meona, the mansion he bought with former socialist minister Miguel Boyer in the Madrid region of Iron Gate. It happened in 1992, just when the economic recession and junk contracts were taking their toll on youth work.
The government of Alfonso XIII“A flag lover who always carries it in his hand with a clear connection to his patriotism. the ‘cayetans’ appeared after the Catalan election, for whom the band Carolina Durante dedicated a song.” And, because of the proximity, the appearance of that Gauche Discipline who frequents Il Giardinetto and the Bocaccio club above the Diagonal: “In Barcelona, unlike the rest of the cities, and especially Madrid, where everyone knows who you are, families have names and surnames and checking accounts are at the disposal of the government, the mushroom culture to the detriment of the pecuniary and the society. That kind of freedom, of protest against Francoism, broke with the classicism that prevailed at that time. “
“For me it will be a victory if this essay provokes a debate, both among those who have a lot of money, inviting them to reflect on their situation, and among those who try to pretend they are nothelp them Question their class identity. I am sure that the posh and noble people will be delighted to see them displayed and will have no problem taking their position with a sense of humor. Above all, I would like all of us to be positive social dysphoria, and we do it with a serious view of ourselves,” said Peláez. Then, “While the middle classes are saving up to buy a Louis Vuitton bag, the professionals are collecting entire blocks of houses in the cities”.
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