Appeals to quality over quantity mask class privilege

Evidence

This exclusion of the personal reaches into even the most external matters; a lady would not want to appear in such extreme décolletage in a really personal, intimately friendly situation with one or two men as she would in a large company without any embarrassment. In the latter she would not feel herself personally involved in the same measure and could therefore abandon herself to the impersonal freedom of the mask. For she is, in the larger company, herself, to be sure, but not quite completely herself, since she is only an element in a formally constituted gathering. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 375 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nation and national interest mask class by uniting individual subjects; Occupational subgroups hoard private appearance-code schemes that outsiders lack; Identity functions as a costume adaptable to context. (+1 more)

Related

• Formality’s mask grants freedom from full personal responsibility for one’s appearance (similarity 0.84)
• Exclusive social circles can transform a stigmatized identity into a chic asset. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Nation and national interest mask class by uniting individual subjects #corroborates (0.90)
• Formality’s mask grants freedom from full personal responsibility for one’s appearance #corroborates (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 375
• Occupational subgroups hoard private appearance-code schemes that outsiders lack #corroborates (0.78)
• Identity functions as a costume adaptable to context. #corroborates (0.75)