White-trash chic reeks of success

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- // - Sunday, March 26, 2006 By YLAN Q.

MUITHE WASHINGTON POST Perfect is out.

In its latest twist, marketing has taken up what Michelle Lamar describes as the anti-Martha Stewart, the anti-Pottery Barn.

It's called - offensive or not - white trash.

"If you're not that ideal person, then you're white trash," says Lamar, who runs online retailer White Trash Palace near Kansas City.

The book "White Trash Etiquette" dispenses advice on how to win bar fights.

Earlier this month, gift bags for the Oscars included kitschy T-shirts from White Trash Palace with slogans such as "Every mother is a working mother" - alongside a pair of $1,000 black diamond Havaiana flip-flops.

Once strictly a pejorative labe...

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