The TikTok and Pinterest trend called the “old money aesthetic” is just a really fancy or classy lifestyle. It’s basically a preppy, Ivy League, business-casual style, and these clothes are things regular people can also buy. They have a bunch of them at Walmart, and you can get them on Amazon.

Even a middle-class person can get an old Mercedes or a Porsche. As for golfing, chess, and other “old money hobbies,” again, regular people can do that too. Regular people go to galas, plays, and basically live a super fancy lifestyle—it’s not limited to just “rich people.”

Do rich people do these things more? Sure. But again, calling it an “old money aesthetic” is dumb when classy or fancy people in general do this.

There are even YouTubers who teach regular people to be super fancy, like The Gent Z / Gentleman’s Collective and Jamila Musayeva, and neither of them come from “old money.” This is just a very classy and fancy lifestyle that anyone can really have, regardless of whether you are middle class, working class, or upper class.

  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Because you can’t buy old money. You can only be born into it.

    It’s about pedigree of birth. It’s the American version of being nobility.

    Plenty of European nobles are broke, but they are still nobles. and therefore better than you.

    It’s about being superior to other people.

    I went to Harvard. I have known and interact regularly with a lot of old money people. I’m middle-class, but I talk fancy due to my education, so I can pass sometimes, esp in casual settings.

    But once they figure out that I’m not old money like them, they are utterly disgusted with my existence.

    And a lot of old money people, look middle-class. They drive Priuses, they have jobs, they dress pretty plainly. , The difference is though they vacation in places you’ve never heard of and they own homes there, and unlike you, their salary is fun money, they don’t need it. They tend to take a lot of jobs in arts, non-profit, education, etc that most middle class people think are too low paid to have a good life on.