I know an easy way to know if a girl is middle class. If she sits on the floor of like the tube or on the street. White middle class girls love that shit.
you should spend more time in essex when its late on a saturday night. girls sitting on the floor of public transport is something that knows no class bounds.
on a totally personal note i recently mentioned the subject of class in an interview recently and immediately regretted it as i thought it mightve made me sound a bit classist.
i was asked about how i relate to people different to me, and i mentioned a really posh girl who i studied with and who i think is great, and then the interviewer asked me 'but arent you upper middle class too?' which surprised me as i get told i sound quite east london/essex which makes sense cos where i grew up was basically people who escaped the east end and for better or worse, ive made a deliberate effort in recent years to try and speak a bit 'better' cos people really judge you on your accent/how you speak ive noticed. its like that inbetweeners episode where simon says to will 'youre not clever, you just SOUND clever!'. i think notions of class can get a bit muddled when youre from an immigrant family actually and i did tell the interviewer this (she seemed quite posh fwiw) but maybe she thought i was in denial or something.
but anyway, i would say there is a certain popular m/c identity that seems to have taken shape in the last 6-7 years that you could basically look at the twees are good thread for. and this strand of m/c identity has gone mainstream in a pretty big way. maybe you could even argue that its not such a bad thing that m/c-ness is seen as somewhat 'cool' after years of w/c cool being so dominant.