Toby Keith is rich. But he is not what people are thinking about when they refer to the upper class. If anything, a title like "White Trash with Money" is basically a message to his fans saying, "I'm rich, but I'm still just like you ."

Yup, that is the message, but the message is not true. And in fact Toby knows. One of the things he is quoted as saying "Daddy used to say we aren't rich enough to vote republican. Well, Daddy, I am!"

Yeah, American ideas of what class is, and is not let multi-millionare from a billionaire family get elected as working class salt-of-the-earth guy because he chewed pork rinds! But that screwed up ideas about class got George Bush elected does not make them true. It just makes them a way to evade the subject.

I also wore a lot of peach in the 80's --remember how popular it was?

Since peach is my best color, I loved that part of '80s fashion! It drove me nuts that I couldn't find it for most of the '90s. My favorite peach outfit in the late '80s was one of those wide-at-the-shoulders-narrows-at-the-knees dresses, complete with shoulder pads and dolman sleeves to add to the volume on top. Loved the dress, and was pissed when it finally got stained and I couldn't get the stain out, so I had to toss it.

It's not so much that it's pink that makes me wonder (I'm wearing pink and brown into work today), but the whole pink and yellow thing--that's outside my previous scope.

Allyson, that book sounds adorable. And I suspect there's a certain perky-goth Seattle-ista who's going to go positively...ahem...batty over it.

Yeah, American ideas of what class is, and is not let multi-millionare from a billionaire family get elected as working class salt-of-the-earth guy because he chewed pork rinds! But that screwed up ideas about class got George Bush elected does not make them true. It just makes them a way to evade the subject.

See also the "elitist" meme about the Obamas. The only explanation I can find for why that resonates with anyone, anywhere, is that some people are more threatened by people from ordinary backgrounds who've made something of themselves than by those who were born at the top of the heap to begin with. (Well, that, and "elitist" WRT them is also code for "uppity," allowing people to bring race to the mix while appearing to talk class.)

::waves from SF hotel room::

Is it bad that I don't wanna go home already? I mean, the kids and the Hub and the dogs and the Stupidest Cat in the World could just come out here, right?

Had fabulous walk with jz and then most wonderfulest dinner with juliana. (And to be able to walk without dissolving into Big Sweat Ball? BONUS!)

It's gonna be hard to get on a plane, come Sunday.

Since peach is my best color, I loved that part of '80s fashion!

I remember the peach year! Except it's one of my worst colors, so its ubiquity annoyed me.

This weekend at Lane Bryant I found a shirt in forest green. I babbled excitedly at the sales clerk about what a beautiful color it was and how happy I was to see something in that shade. She calmly replied, "Yes, we're starting to get the fall colors in." I said, "No, this is FOREST green. Not dark olive. I swear I haven't seen it in YEARS. Now, if you just had some nice dark true navies."

From the way she blinked at me it was clear she didn't know the ways of color seasons. But I've been over-reliant on black and red for the past several years, because it's been hard to find the dark navies, forest greens, and burgundies that used to be the bulk of my wardrobe.

I'm going to have to have someone else objectively look sometime. I just held up red, aqua, light blue, and hot pink and all of them made me look tired. Might also be because I am tired. I have dark brown hair (if it were natural), brown eyes, and medium skin. The only color that I get a compliment on every single time is a dark salmon colored tee.

Colors you get consistently complemented on are generally the best guide. Brown eyes probably put you on the warm (i.e., spring or fall) side. And dark salmon would seem to confirm that. Light/medium/dark skin doesn't matter as much as whether there is a cool (blue) or warm (yellow) tone to it.

This weekend at Lane Bryant I found a shirt in forest green. I babbled excitedly at the sales clerk about what a beautiful color it was and how happy I was to see something in that shade. She calmly replied, "Yes, we're starting to get the fall colors in." I said, "No, this is FOREST green. Not dark olive. I swear I haven't seen it in YEARS. Now, if you just had some nice dark true navies."

I'm happy to see forest green again because I've been looking for FG hiking shorts to match a number of t-shirts. However, while better than olive for me, all greens are spring/fall colors according to the "Color Me Beautiful" seasons. Although, I can get away with ones that have a decent amount of blue in them (eau de nil, pine green).

Yeah, American ideas of what class is, and is not let multi-millionare from a billionaire family get elected as working class salt-of-the-earth guy because he chewed pork rinds! But that screwed up ideas about class got George Bush elected does not make them true. It just makes them a way to evade the subject.

See also the "elitist" meme about the Obamas.

I don't think it is a class issue so much as a disdain for intellectualism. Obama is an intellectual sort of guy, for that matter, so is his wife (the intellectual part, not the guy part). That's what makes him an "elitist". George Bush is not an intellectual and I think that's what gave him the guy-you-can-have-a-beer-with quality.

ita, the description of the dress as peach would make me think it's not a great color for you; however, it is super cute and one way you could mitigate the color is to have a (cool) white silk scarf up near your face--very Great Gatsby!