Elegant hippie? Elegant quilt haha. Did you ask your hubby? Is it for the farmers?

I think every country has real peasants (I’m sure Pakistan has more than their fair share!).

Arabic has some names that can tell you what their forefathers did. I have one friend her hubby’s name is “father of the button.” lol.

Anyhow, peace! Tis only a story of my wacky neighbors! (Plenty more where that came from!)

Of course, class consciousness is not what it was before Communism. Nowadays it’s normally fine to be a peasant, as long as you avoid that stereotypical narrow-mindedness. But it still survives – for example, perhaps, in families with old aristocratic titles and among some elements of what I shall term ‘old intelligentsia’.

But I grew up in a family of professors in the States. And unlike Poland, that means 1) two parents who are professors, nothing more i.e. no dynasty, and 2) political correctness and being horrified at the idea of noticing social class, unless someone has egregiously bad manners.

I mean, I’ve brought home young gentlemen with long scruffy hair and an earring, who arrived in a leather jacket on a motorcyle, and that was no problem (indeed, my stepmother has been trying for decades to persuade my father to get an earring!). The only time anyone was banned from our household was when someone I invited over stole some of my toys.

But to this day my beloved probably still wonders in a corner of his mind whether it is REALLY true that my father doesn’t give a **** whether he got a college degree – indeed, quite the contrary, he gets about 500 points for giving up the opportunity to do so.

See, he didn’t exactly get extra points with the admissions people (this was back in the early 1970s) for being a devoutly religious person from a devoutly religious family. Someone offered him the use of certain connections to gain admission, but not wanting to engage in corruption, he refused masha’Allah…

Your neighbors are hilaroius.. it sounds like a typical thing from folks overseas lol.

Caraboska I think it’s because they literally have peasants in their countries and it’s about social status. They don’t want to dress like someone from a lower class.

The second has nice colors, but it’s just all wrong in styling (at least for my body type) who wants to look like you’re wearing a box? I could live with the skirt though.

The last one though. Oh man. I’m totally channeling the little matchstick girl. I would never in a million years consider wearing that.

Funny story: A few years ago my Pakistani neighbor’s daughter was getting engaged and the kids and I were invited over for it. I put my dd who was about 4 at the time into a patchwork dress that was very cute. The mother was absolutely mortified, and went to find something else for her to wear because “only peasants wear such clothing.”