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While I'm not often a fan of sweeping generalizations....I feel like with the exception of ITB Raleigh and a few enclaves in Durham and CH....most of the wealthy/high-income people in the Triangle would fall into that "new money" category.
I wouldn't consider it "old money" by any stretch but prevailing fashion trends locally somewhat reflect what I'd expect James Bottomtooth IV and Needham Finley Broughton III to wear.
Lots of places/industries have their own status symbols even if you don't think of it that way. IE, the Tech executive in his Patagonia vest.
While I'm not often a fan of sweeping generalizations....I feel like with the exception of ITB Raleigh and a few enclaves in Durham and CH....most of the wealthy/high-income people in the Triangle would fall into that "new money" category.
Perhaps not.
The richest families I know, through friends, here are all tied to Furniture from the Triad or, 5th generation lawyers from Western NC, and, uhh-hmmm, descendants of the State's free labor past.
I would call none of that new money.
Yes, there is certainly new money here; techies, doctors etc etc etc. But I delineate between "rich" and "FU Money Wealthy". Football players are rich. Owners are wealthy.
I wouldn't consider it "old money" by any stretch but prevailing fashion trends locally somewhat reflect what I'd expect James Bottomtooth IV and Needham Finley Broughton III to wear.
Lots of places/industries have their own status symbols even if you don't think of it that way. IE, the Tech executive in his Patagonia vest.
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Awesome reference.
I also wonder if the "Libertarian Musk-stans techie bros" jump of their go to vest with the latest moves by Patagonia's owner.
I also wonder if the "Libertarian Musk-stans techie bros" jump of their go to vest with the latest moves by Patagonia's owner.
Ooohh...never thought of that...Maybe they'll switch to Vineyard vines, I don't see Shep and Ian doing anything but cashing out when they decide they're done.
Ooohh...never thought of that...Maybe they'll switch to Vineyard vines, I don't see Shep and Ian doing anything but cashing out when they decide they're done.
LOL
I used to build a CDP for VV. The markups on their clothes are flat out friggin amazing. And I say that as the son of a man who worked in the shoe industry for 40 years, so I am quite familiar with the factory to retail process.
I wouldn't consider it "old money" by any stretch but prevailing fashion trends locally somewhat reflect what I'd expect James Bottomtooth IV and Needham Finley Broughton III to wear.
Lots of places/industries have their own status symbols even if you don't think of it that way. IE, the Tech executive in his Patagonia vest.
Was wondering when he would get brought into the conversation! haha
Back for a visit to this forum, which I kind of miss as my now local forum lacks the sense of community and camaraderie of this one.
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Raleigh (much of the South, really) has a different style/materialism I've noticed. In Raleigh for a guy its a Peter Millar quarter zip over a Southern Tide polo and a Rolex and Barbour jacket if it's chilly.
I remember this from my time there, and it represents a certain kind of hell that I got over in the 80s when the Yuppie thing happened.
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I lived in walking distance of a very high end shopping center in So FL years ago—Tiffany and LV type of place. I agree with the Shopcation aspect. The whole area caters to the wealthy and their vacations. High end restaurants everywhere. Bentleys and Rolls Royces are daily sights, in plural. There’s no city district here that compares.
Sounds a bit like an area a click or two away from where we are, it’s like the TX version of Rodeo Drive, with them, Gucci, a Tommy Bahamas bar, and a Lambo dealer on the strip, which is 1/4 mile long, if that.
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But TJMaxx is ALWAYS crowded! All locations.
The TJ Maxxs here suck! The ones in the Triangle were bigger and better.
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Old money (here) vs new money (there) tend to spend differently. Not to mention, sear sucker, a polo and khakis is putting on the ritz here (thinking the saintly princes of the south who party on the infield at Churchill Downs if you're trying to envision what I am talking about)....where as its a joke costume in my repertoire
Agree, and here there is a lot of both monies.
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