tradesman-class

Updated: May 3, 2025

The children of five hundred a year must look like those of a thousand; and those of a thousand must rival the tenue of little lords and ladies born in the purple; while the amount of money spent in the tradesman-class is a matter of real amazement to those let into the secret.

E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton - Modern Women and What is Said of Them: A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)