Posh People: Tatler

How to be 'posh'. For whatever reason we all admire the rich and famous. Why? What are these people really like? How do we replicate it?
Posh people have a lot of codes and rules of etiquette, such as: eating a pair with a spoon, definitely only one kiss when greeting someone with absolutely no saliva at all, compliments should be delicately given as to not embarrass anyone or seem creepy, and, most importantly a gentleman is never rude unintentionally.

There are many rules that posh people follow when communicating with each other. The guide to etiquette is necessary as a posh person to not offend anyone and to conduct yourself delicately and elegantly. Posh people are very interested in their friends and social circles. They are very interested in gossip and news from their parties and social events. They aim for the limelight to be on themselves and this often leads them to do shocking things which ends up in many pictures of semi-naked people, drugs, alcohol, people letting their hair down and partying with rock stars. It is stereotypical for upper class people to be famously out of touch with their emotions, they are known as brisk and rude. People often 'bark' at each other during sporting events such as racing and polo. However the point of etiquette is to prevent any real offence being made.

Upper class people obviously enjoy high culture. They are well known for living in the lap of luxury, and why not, with the bank accounts most dream of having. Being born into such a highly sophisticated social circle and having every need catered for from such a young age. No ones complaining about that. So what sorts of things could you only find the poshest people enjoying? Pony clubs, horse riding, polo and all other horse related hobbies. A key point here is that this is always a hobby, they enjoy some hard work, but very rarely. It is important for these people to have staff to maintain the upkeep of the horses (or gardens, land, ect.). Posh people seem to get a kick out of knowing and sharing gossip about people they know, or people in their social circles. There has to be a lot of coverage of parties and social events, which will include the fashion and peoples distinct style.

Sub-cultural groups are sensitive to contemporary trends in fashion, style, and music.

Subcultural groups are large groups within a culture. For example, ‘hipsters’ is a popular group in our western society. Members of this group are usually young. They avoid most pop-culture things. They often wear clothes that you’d expect older people to wear such as plaid shirts, glasses, and cardigans. This group of people also like to do things that most other people don’t do. Such as using old technology, wearing vintage clothes, being vegan or vegetarian. These people are often artists, musicians, writers, or have other creative professions. This can make them hard to relate to for non-hipsters or people who aren’t interested in creative things.

Gration, Reilly, and Titford had the theory that people join groups to fulfil common needs. One of the needs that would be fulfilled from being a hipster would be communication with others, because within the hipster community there would be a lot of ways to communicate, most hipters use apple products and would use instagram or pinterest to communicate. Another need would be able to be with people who share a common interest or purpouse, within this social group there would be many common interests such as fashion, art, theatre, and books or writing.

The hipster style is usually a cynical performance. Most people could easily find traits of hipster within themselves but it would be easy to latch on to this and then try to be more hipster than what is natural. Having a cynical performance can be a successful defence strategy, this is because there is less possibility of getting hurt if there is not much of your true self being shown.