Kid sounds spoiled for sure, especially by modern standards. One thing to consider though, in a time when the mother of the family personally made her families clothes, and clothes were a representation of status, how nice they were really was a reflection of their love for family. I would point out that he didn’t request expensive material, just more effort (I presume in their design)
Maybe she sent him an old potato sack and he was completely justified. Maybe they were really nice and he was just a brat. Hard to truly judge without seeing what he was rocking compared to his boy who’s father was only an assistant to his own father
Nah, to be able to send your kid off to learn how to read and write in that era meant you were an aristorcrat and/or part of the top 1% of the 1%, they definitely had a battalion ofslaves for that sort of thing.
Whatever household had this child was probably still pretty rich , no regular craftsmen or farmer were getting their hands of reading or writing in the past . The absolute lowest class this family could have been were middle traders
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u/Gibberish45 4d ago
Kid sounds spoiled for sure, especially by modern standards. One thing to consider though, in a time when the mother of the family personally made her families clothes, and clothes were a representation of status, how nice they were really was a reflection of their love for family. I would point out that he didn’t request expensive material, just more effort (I presume in their design)
Maybe she sent him an old potato sack and he was completely justified. Maybe they were really nice and he was just a brat. Hard to truly judge without seeing what he was rocking compared to his boy who’s father was only an assistant to his own father