Kappaloo, the "lower classes" of the past had a lot less money than they do today (before the government caved in and assisted them, the only help they got, if they were lucky was from the church or a secular organization. That wasn't really enough) Today, unless one is homeless, one probably has plumbing, heat, and probably a lot more luxuries than they did in the past. What they have today might very well have been considered "middle class" luxuries 50-60 years ago. If you want to know what REAL lower class is, then you should talk to my dad. In post WWII Hong Kong, many families of four or five or even more lived in rooms the size of a typical university residence room......imagine that...FIVE PEOPLE. And many of us complain that our rooms are cramped when we only have one roommate. Often, 50 people would share one bathroom. Today, that kind of housing would be shut down by the government because the standards are deemed too low.
Your parents sound like good people, limiting what you can buy when it came to clothes. Good for them!
