Squaresville

I love this post from Ivy Style.

There is something so comforting about be square.  The pressure is entirely off to be cool, hip or trendy.  It's okay to shop at Macy's. 

It's okay to grill burgers in the back yard and hang out with your wife while watching the kids on the swing set.  This honestly isn't about being retro.  It's about finding those things that are comfortable and sticking with them, regardless of fashion.

Nelson Aldrich Jr.

The following article comes from the September 26, 1988 issue of People magazine.  I thought it was interesting to get some of this background on the author of not only Old Money, but also the article that I posted here some time back.

 

 

Born to the Manor, but Not to the Money, Nelson Aldrich Jr. Reflects on Matters of Class

By Deane Worth

 

Nelson Aldrich Jr., the son, grandson and great-grandson of millionaires, did not set out to live his life as a sociological experiment. Yet though he was raised with many of the trappings of great wealth—the schools, the clubs and the summer homes—he was conspicuously lacking in cash. It was this singular deprivation that led to his discovery that it was less "the reality of unearned wealth" that guaranteed one's position in the world of "old money" than "imagination and pure training." In 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald pronounced the rich "different from you and me." Now comes Aldrich to explain those differences in his new book, Old Money, the Mythology of America's Upper Class.