When Irving Howe, the good democratic socialist critic of Dissent fame, was attacking in 1966 the whole idea of Counter-Cultural style — I guess Beatle boots, beads, long hair, turtlenecks, denims, etc. — , he said that it rested
upon the ``... basic assumption... of the
middle class: that
values can be inferred from, or are resident in, the externals of dress, appearance, furnishings, and hair - dos.»