On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 07:23:09 -0700
"Kelly St. Clair" <xxxxxx@efn.org> wrote:

Hello Kelly,

>Yup.  It's often framed, as with school uniforms these days, as "we
>must prevent these poor dears from spending beyond their means in an
>attempt to keep up with/outdo their peers", but in practice...

Even with a uniform, besides what you go on to say, it's easy to tell,
after a while, whose family has money and whose doesn't:  The uniform of
the less well off starts looking shabby, or too small, or both.

The same argument was used in my day, back in the 1960s.  It was
bullshit then, too.

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