bourgeois chic

[musicaf]

What is the meaning of bourgeois chic?

Paris has historically been the global epicentre of a certain type of bourgeois chic – and arguably it still is. Its haute couture, technically brilliant ateliers and incredible roster of ready-to-wear labels dictate what will fill our wardrobes season after season – more so than New York, London or Milan.

http://www.global-blue.com/destinations/france/paris/new-paris-fashion/


Thank you very much.

 

[lucas-sp]

"Bourgeois chic" is a mode of "chic-ness" that is associated with the bourgeois. Here are the relevant dictionary definitions:

chic /ʃiːk; ʃɪk/adj

• (esp of fashionable clothes, women, etc) stylish or elegant

n

• stylishness, esp in dress; modishness; fashionable good taste

bourgeois /ˈbʊəʒwɑː; bʊəˈʒwɑː/ often derogatoryadj

• characteristic of, relating to, or comprising the middle class
• conservative or materialistic in outlook: a bourgeois mentality
• (in Marxist thought) dominated by capitalists or capitalist interests

Do you have any specific problems with these words or their definitions?

 

[musicaf]

Thank you.