Workingman's Threads

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We have passed the moment of NormCore. In vogue among the new upper class is dressing up as an idealized, imagined proletariat. Blue collars and khaki jeans; work boots; the whole lumberjack thing. This reflects a thin, symbolic solidarity with the working class against the 1%, but betrays a deeper resentment—“this is what a respectable worker should look like.”