The three ‘toughs’ are still wearing collared shirts, jackets and at least 1 has a vest. Could it be upper class wear vs middle class wear? Or upper class formal vs casual?
Can anyone with more knowledge of clothing or class from the time weigh in?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toffs_and_Toughs
School clothes, plus the fact that most clothing of the period looks more ‘formal’ than we’re used to.
And certainly less laundered
Ian Jack had criticised this title since Salmon, Catlin, and Young were not especially poor or disreputable but merely part of the respectable working-class majority of the time.
The “tough” children have shoes too. That’s a really expensive thing to keep kids in as they grow (pre-mass production)
Oooh you’re one of those fancy lads! You want to buy a monkey?
Don’t let them give you any of that flank steak bullshit. Try the london broil.
'ere, what a toff. 'eave 'arf a brick at him!
I wonder why humankind is “proud” of its deep investment in artifice/prejudice?
Surely anybody can see the pretence-investment, and earn commitment to gutting that from oneself…
Surely?
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Look at this guy ^
Probably doesn’t even own a tophat, haha!
And which ones will be on the front line against Hitler in a few years?
According to Wikipedia, the 3 “toughs” lived long lives.
One of the “toffs” died a little over a year after the photo was taken, and his father died in a POW camp.
Those damn poors, can’t live with em, can’t live without em
