Miles Jaffe

Last summer, when Miles Jaffe released his 170-page lexicon of all things luxe and worthy of mockery in the South Fork, The Hamptons Dictionary, recession was still a retro economic condition associated with the tech bubble and Wall Street was still rolling in money.

Even though Americans are ringing in Memorial Day 2007 in a much chillier climate, Mr. Jaffe’s dictionary of skewering bon mots will surely be as appropriate this summer as back in the halcyon days.

Sure, there might be a few more affluent—defined in The Hamptons Dictionary Platinum Edition as: “1. less than wealthy; 2. Having a net worth of less than $10 million; 3. A disparaging term used by the wealthy to denigrate the merely rich”—folks milling around, but they are not going to broadcast it in the land of conspicuous consumption.  read more »