where the poor people at?

the link above discusses mary-kate and ashley olsen's trendsetting style - dumpster chic. you know, multimillionaires that dress like they're not. now I'm no fashionista, but the article implies that this is some kind of new thing. but during my days at sarah lawrence from '90-'94, the best way to tell which half of the students were on no financial aid whatsoever was to pick out the ones that looked shittiest. those of us who came to school having worked the summer before our first year bought new clothes in an attempt to fit in, only to discover that the people who dressed nicely were the other broke-asses like ourselves. we still stuck out as pathetic poor people ("poor" at sarah lawrence equals "middle class"), until our senior years, when those nice clothes were finally worn out. then of course we graduated with no nice clothing, and found it very difficult to get work right about the same time our student loan payments kicked in -- student loans we're still paying off today, more than ten years later. so to the olsens I say this: up yours.