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kontextmaschine:

You don’t see leather elbow patches sewn into sweaters as a professorial signifier anymore

Oh, for the ages: this was absolutely not understood as a marking of distinction, the idea was that given their low income given status ranking they’d reinforce the vulnerable parts of high-but-not-rich-high class clothing with durable material to make them last

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Like the association of sweaters and college and football in old cartoons isn’t an accident, those things were pretty equivalent class signifiers in early 20th century America

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