middle class

The 1960s middle classes could not afford haute couture, but yearned for a stylish, distinctive look of their own.

The author was born in Omaha to Haitian immigrant parents, though Gay stresses that her path “wasn’t particularly difficult in that I grew up middle class and then upper middle class.”

As confident as China appears on the world stage, President Xi must find a way to keep a burgeoning middle class from worrying about their future.

Ali previously told the BBC he wanted to bring a "working class, northern voice" to the Green Party, which he said for a long time had held "a very middle class view".

The music press, an industry overwhelmingly drawn from the upper middle class, struggled to reconcile it.