| Comment | In short: historically Glasgow has always been a more working class city than Edinburgh.
In order to have an efficient industrialised workforce, a bit of amalgamation and cultural diffusion is required.
Edinburgh had a far higher percentage of ‘fancy’ trades. Particularly tailoring. The nature of smaller boutique scale workplaces versus the workhouses and factories didn’t require as much homogeneity and could in fact thrive based on difference.
For example it was easier for a Frenchman to trade on his culture in Edinburgh than in Glasgow which required heavy workers rather than people trying to bring fashion from abroad.
This is very sweeping and of course there are smaller communities of Scot’s and Gaelic in both areas but without writing an essay that’s the jist of it.
It’s not that glasgow is self important or ‘cooler’. Glasgow has just always been a space for regular people rather than a place for poseurs or flaneurs. Fashion didn’t care about Glasgow. (Although a good number of fashionable things including coffee houses started their uk beginnings in Glasgow as a cheaper/easier/larger populace to test things on before rolling it out to the opinionated and ‘higher cultured’ Edinburghers.) |
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