What makes someone posh?

[Bitofthebubbly]

I have an image of what I consider ‘posh’ in my head but I’m not sure if that’s reality or just how I imagine because I am certainly not posh in any way I think even if I was rich I wouldn’t be posh so I don’t think it comes down to just having money although I’m sure it helps.

I feel like posh people are people who are often very well presented, hair done well, clothes always ironed and outfits well coordinated - probably didn’t buy their clothes from George at Asda. I imagine they are also quite house proud and keep a clean house as much as possible, or hire people to keep it clean for them, they might own a large mansion and/or a fancy flat in the city. Probably have a holiday home abroad too. They might be into more ‘sophisticated’ hobbies like classical music or going to the theatre and horse riding rather than football. They eat fancier food. Their kids go to private school. They use a knife and fork to eat pizza.

(That doesn’t mean i think those of us who aren’t posh aren’t well presented or have clean houses however)

 

[lemonlime]

I don't think posh and well bred necessarily overlap. When I think of "posh" posh, I think of people who are so secure in their position and wealth that they don't care whether they present themselves well. They'll be walking arpund in 80 year tattered old suits but will talk about going shooting with Lord Turdington next month or something. It's really a private club that you can't buy your way into and I'm not sure I'd want it either.

Someone can be well spoken, well educated, well behaved and with good taste and definitely not be what I consider posh butI don't deny that financial and status privilagemakes it easier for one to indulge in finer things in life, whether it's expensive or not.

 

[Babyyoda88]

I got called posh for not having the heavy accent of were I was born and for called lunch dinner

my partner went to a private school and has a really nice accent and he always gets called posh. But if anyone could see how much he farts and burbs they’d think otherwise.

 

[MyLittlePony25]

I got called ‘posh’ when I worked at a restaurant in another town due to the way I talk and because I was at uni and had a horse. I do not class myself as posh, especially when I used to stick my boots on over my PJ’s to go to turn out the horse and come back covered in hay, straw and

My parents didn’t pay for anything, I worked full time hours whilst doing full time uni, having a horse and taking my mum to and from her hospital appointments. I was always skint!

 

[vanillaswirl]

The image in my mind is Mark Francis from Made in Chelsea.

 

[Babyyoda88]

I got called posh for not having the heavy accent of were I was born and for called lunch dinner

my partner went to a private school and has a really nice accent and he always gets called posh. But if anyone could see how much he farts and burbs they’d think otherwise.

Apologies for the typos

 

[Samtastic]

I would say posh speaks well good manners
Folk can be rich and be k*****

 

[lime]

When their house looks like a charity shop filled with old wood furniture, expensive rugs, traditional lamps, drapes, mirrors, etc. Sunken/built in shelves that go all the way around the room filled with books. Lots of tat and trinkets everywhere that probably have personal meaning. Likely to be extremely dusty because they don't have a cleaner/maid despite popular belief that posh people have staff. House is covered in pet hair. A dog or cat sleeping somewhere. No TV in the living room, or if they have a TV it's modest sized not these 50 inch cinema things.

Basically, this photo of Princess Anne's house which coincidentally was featured on Mail Online today:

https://i.archive.is/oldest/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/02/07/12/38985786-9233455-image-m-44_1612700075043.jpg

 

[Tilly Kister]

 

[WilmaHun]

When their house looks like a charity shop filled with old wood furniture, expensive rugs, traditional lamps, drapes, mirrors, etc. Sunken/built in shelves that go all the way around the room filled with books. Lots of tat and trinkets everywhere that probably have personal meaning. Likely to be extremely dusty because they don't have a cleaner/maid despite popular belief that posh people have staff. House is covered in pet hair. A dog or cat sleeping somewhere. No TV in the living room, or if they have a TV it's modest sized not these 50 inch cinema things.

Basically, this photo of Princess Anne's house which coincidentally was featured on Mail Online today:

https://i.archive.is/oldest/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/02/07/12/38985786-9233455-image-m-44_1612700075043.jpg

Whenever I see a property like this on a holiday site, like Air B & B I instantly feel put off as it just gives me dirty vibes. I don't know why, I just always expect everything to be covered in an inch of dust and have a bit of a musty smell

 

[Chatty9]

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[jaymie]

I am not born in the UK, at work if someone tells me that went to Exeter, Durham and Bristol I automatically think they are posh.

I enjoyed reading this thread!

 

[StormSolitaire]

I got called posh in school for knowing what marzipan was! I grew up in a particularly rough area though.

I'd say personally that someone is posh if they have grown up "old money"

Haha I got called posh for eating couscous salads and hummus in 1997. Another girl got called a snob for eating M&S crisps by the same people who would take the piss out of someone for a Netto carrier bag

I would define posh as not wearing ones wealth but wearing a mix of high end yet practical brands they can get wear out of like Barbour combined with normal stuff like M&S. Posh men wear tweed and pocket squares and posh women kitten heels and muted colours with perhaps some Laura Ashley floral. They aren’t trendsetters nor fashion followers but classic. Frugal with wealth for certain things- the posh ones in my class would go on ‘boring’ holidays which sounded like roughing it to me- us ‘normal’ ones would go to Spain but they’d all rent cottages in Wales or go on a driving holiday of France and Belgium ok what else... I find posh people less bandwagony and more traditional than nouveau riche- posh are more likely to eat a proper full English but a posh one in a nice country house hotel with loose leaf teas whereas new rich will jump on the chia seeds and avocado toast bandwagon in somewhere ‘instagrammable’.
Hope my description isn’t offensive by any means

 

[hanq2021]

For me it’s someone who speaks proper, has a large house with a lot of land, has horses, drives something like a Land Rover, goes to private school, goes skiing, goes hunting.

 

[HankMcPrank]

Pronunciation.

It’s not grass it’s Gr-a.
It’s not scon, it’s sc-own.
it’s not forehead, it’s forrid.
it’s not brass, it’s br-a.

I could go on for days

 

[Lanavalentine]

Pronunciation.

It’s not grass it’s Gr-a.
It’s not scon, it’s sc-own.
it’s not forehead, it’s forrid.
it’s not brass, it’s br-a.

I could go on for days

Nooo, I say all of these except the forehead one and I am NOT posh, just southern

 

[Penelope Strawberry]

Pronunciation.

It’s not grass it’s Gr-a.
It’s not scon, it’s sc-own.
it’s not forehead, it’s forrid.
it’s not brass, it’s br-a.

I could go on for days

I say forrid - thought it was just a South African thing!

 

[HankMcPrank]

Nooo, I say all of these except the forehead one and I am NOT posh, just southern

I’m southern too! This is from Google !

 

[watermelon sugar]

My Mum is from a little village somewhere in the Midlands but spent most of her life in Liverpool with us. When she speaks to someone who she wants to think she is posh, she speaks posh. Like one day she'll be like 'Arrrrrntie' then the next she puts on a rough scouse accent and its 'aunnnnnnntiiiieeeeeee'

 

[StormSolitaire]

I say forrid - thought it was just a South African thing!

Scousers say it too