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If I’m posh that’s a pretty low bench mark! I work with a lot of posh clients! Here are some things I think make the super posh, posh. Like others have said it’s less to do with things they own but just how they act. Just in general being very well spoken, very very well mannered, polite and gracious.
- Private school/boarding school - bonus if it’s the same school that dad and grandfather went to
- Having a very grand family home/estate that’s passed down to the eldest son
- Also having a London family house/flat, usually South Ken or Marylebone area
- Artwork and jewellery being passed down
- Having a title
- Featuring in Debretts
- Skiing holidays, even better a chalet
- Several trust funds for the grandchildren
- Bright red/yellow trousers
we always joke the brighter the trouser the more land owned!
- ‘Old money’ clients I find are much more likely to make sizeable charitable donations compared to ‘new money’!! Old money also never quibble our fees but new money will
I don’t think having money/assets automatically makes you posh though, likewise having a title. I have come across plenty of posh clients who actually don’t have that much cash.
- Private school/boarding school - bonus if it’s the same school that dad and grandfather went to
- Having a very grand family home/estate that’s passed down to the eldest son
- Also having a London family house/flat, usually South Ken or Marylebone area
- Artwork and jewellery being passed down
- Having a title
- Featuring in Debretts
- Skiing holidays, even better a chalet
- Several trust funds for the grandchildren
- Bright red/yellow trousers
we always joke the brighter the trouser the more land owned! - ‘Old money’ clients I find are much more likely to make sizeable charitable donations compared to ‘new money’!! Old money also never quibble our fees but new money will
I don’t think having money/assets automatically makes you posh though, likewise having a title. I have come across plenty of posh clients who actually don’t have that much cash.
For me, when I hear the word posh I think of families with old money, very well spoken (made in Chelsea accents) private schools, big houses with lots of land, horses, luxurious holidays all the time, wealthy but the sort of wealth where the person don’t have to post designer brands on Instagram or brag and name drop, I feel you can just see when someone has money. It sounds weird but in the past when I’ve been in London me and whoever I’m with have said.. they’ve got money, she’s got money etc
Having a Mercedes, sauna and room for a pony. Also a musical bidet. And a country cottage.
I went to Oxbridge and my mum was a cleaner/factory worker and raised me as a single parent.
Having a Mercedes definitely isn’t posh. Tons of average people have them on finance these days, and my own dad used to own a Mercedes because he was a professional chauffeur (who drove actual posh people!)
All the posh people I’ve known generally drove to town in their messy old Landrovers, full of Labrador hair, covered in mud.
I don’t think having a country cottage is necessarily posh, either. I suppose it depends where you live, but I’d say country estate is posh, country cottage could easily belong to an entirely average person depending on many factors.
I think the males I refer to are wannabe travellers , except their dads/ grandda probably worked down the pit like everyone's in the mining villages.
The jockeys must Class themselves as professional sportsmen .
An ex-colleague of mine either owned or sponsored a racehorse with his mates, none of them were posh, or considered themselves to be .
You and me bothI get called posh purely based on where I’m originally from! I live in a city now, about half hour away but everyone who knows where I’m originally from thinks I’m posh and I’m bloody not
i grew up in Buckinghamshire so apparently that makes me posh even though I grew up in a normal area and went without so many things whilst growing up. I moved to a city further north and as soon as people found out where I was from they automatically assumed I was posh. It started off as a bit of banter but actually got pretty annoying in the end. Bucks is a lovely area but there are plenty of non-posh people who live there too!
I got 58% posh, probably pushed up by my Grandad having traced our family back to literally 800AD and therefore finding the family crest... we definitely don't use it!
My mum owns a horse. Shes very well off and so are her friends. All well paid jobs they have worked hard for. They are the most common bunch of women you will ever come across.I got 19%
I think it's relative really. I know people who own horses but I'd never in a million years call them posh. It's really hard to actually say what I think is posh as everytime I think of something I think "oh no, so and so does that and they're not posh" etc
Posh to me is big homes in the country side but more importantly a posh accent.
I got 19 percent
People who wear a lot of white, have Aesop soap in their bathroom (it's nearly always pictured in famous peoples' real estate photos), speak elegantly and hold someone's gaze while they're listening (manners), well presented (clothes are immaculate, jewellery is subtle), no tattoos, and speak quietly
My boyfriend teases me for being posh, I’m not posh in the slightest, I’m from a working class family and grew up in a bog standard northern mill town, but he says the way I speak is posh and that my family are my dad was kicked out at 16 has worked hard to have a comfortable life, they have a modest but nice detached house and drive nice but not new cars. I am not by any means spoilt but my dad has never seen me go without when I’ve been on hard times. I really don’t think that makes me/them posh but my boyfriend has other ideas! I guess it’s all relative, his family are very different to mine, I’m an only child, he has 4 brothers and sisters and had it a lot tougher than I did so I can see why he thinks I’m posh, but to me it means something else entirely!
I know a lot of actually ‘posh’ people, and the things which stand out for me, a few of which have already been mentioned are:
Doing their big shop at Waitrose and regarding normal supermarkets or god forbid, Aldi/Lidl as if that would be proper slumming it
Barbour/Hunter everything
Not opening presents on Christmas Day until after the Queen’s speech
Playing polo/water polo
Going on annual family skiing holidays. I once mentioned casually to someone at work that I’d never been skiing and their reaction was as if I’d just said I’d never seen the sea or something
I worked in McDonald’s when I was younger and posh people always look like a fish out of water in there totally perplexed by the menu/ordering system
my dad was kicked out at 16 has worked hard to have a comfortable life, they have a modest but nice detached house and drive nice but not new cars. I am not by any means spoilt but my dad has never seen me go without when I’ve been on hard times. I really don’t think that makes me/them posh but my boyfriend has other ideas! I guess it’s all relative, his family are very different to mine, I’m an only child, he has 4 brothers and sisters and had it a lot tougher than I did so I can see why he thinks I’m posh, but to me it means something else entirely!I know a lot of actually ‘posh’ people, and the things which stand out for me, a few of which have already been mentioned are:
Doing their big shop at Waitrose and regarding normal supermarkets or god forbid, Aldi/Lidl as if that would be proper slumming it
Barbour/Hunter everything
Not opening presents on Christmas Day until after the Queen’s speech
Playing polo/water polo
Going on annual family skiing holidays. I once mentioned casually to someone at work that I’d never been skiing and their reaction was as if I’d just said I’d never seen the sea or something
I worked in McDonald’s when I was younger and posh people always look like a fish out of water in there totally perplexed by the menu/ordering system
I’ve been thinking of more signs that someone is posh...
- boarding school is totally normal to them, everyone in their family went (often to the same one, for generations)
- they have a mud room (separate from the utility room)
- being into hunting (obviously not all posh people, but let’s be honest, hunting is very much an upper class hobby in the UK)
- only certain universities being acceptable to attend (oxbridge, St Andrews etc)
- multiple family heirlooms: jewellery, art, furniture etc. Posh people might be cash poor but they often have high worth assets tucked away
- having a strong sense of self and confidence, almost an entitlement in many posh people. The posh people I know and have known just never doubt themselves the way the rest of us often do
I shop at the 'posh' supermarkets but i am as working class as they come.
For me it is someone who lives a manor house, has staff and reads the lady magazine.
For me it is someone who lives a manor house, has staff and reads the lady magazine.
I know a lot of horsey people and they are as far from posh as you can get. One lives in a council flat in a very rough area lol. It’s a bit of a myth that owning horses equals posh in my experience. For example the gypsey and traveller community are very horsey and I don’t think anyone would call them posh!
You have pretty much summed it up.
28 %, says I'm a little bit posh, but not a snob. Although, I have been called a snob a few times in my lifeI got 19%
I think it's relative really. I know people who own horses but I'd never in a million years call them posh. It's really hard to actually say what I think is posh as everytime I think of something I think "oh no, so and so does that and they're not posh" etc
I got 17%. I’m surprised that it wasn’t less to be honest.
I got 44%... I think mine got upped a lot when I said I've owned a lot of Hollister, Jack Wills and A+F... please tell me I'm not the only one who walked around school with my Hollister bag with the topless guy on
My dad's side is definitely under the bracket of 'posh' I think, we've got cousins that went to Eton, all have second homes etc. Yet my mum's side is from Bradford and when I tell you my wedding was a complete contrast. I didn't need any entertainment, just listening to my Northerner cousin trying to speak to my cousin who's lived in Clifton his whole life was enough for me.
No favouritism at all, but northerners definitely know how to have more fun
My dad's side is definitely under the bracket of 'posh' I think, we've got cousins that went to Eton, all have second homes etc. Yet my mum's side is from Bradford and when I tell you my wedding was a complete contrast. I didn't need any entertainment, just listening to my Northerner cousin trying to speak to my cousin who's lived in Clifton his whole life was enough for me.
No favouritism at all, but northerners definitely know how to have more fun