Zoe Williams’s footnote (Does owning a fridge make you middle class?, G2, 4 October) reminded me of a definition of class I came across years ago. If you wear a company uniform or a badge with your name on it to work, then you are working class. If you have your name on your office door or your desk, then you are middle class. If it’s your name over the building or on its wall then you are upper class.
Melvyn Nicholson
Yateley, Hampshire
• My mother threatened to keep the milk in the piano. My father, Welsh and musical to his core, was supposed to buy a fridge but returned with a piano in the 1950s. I’m not sure if his headship of the village primary school in Blackrod trumped the fridge in the “middle class” stakes. But it was a Methodist school so maybe that added extra points.
Hilary Grime
Oxford
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