Cleveland Amory wrote a wonderful trilogy of books on American society in the Fifties and Sixties (The Proper Bostonians, The Last Resorts and Who Killed Society?). The Last Resorts is a history of smart hideaways and how their client base changed over the years. These observations still apply to all fashionable places, such as Aspen, Cap Ferrat, Bali or Barbados.
The following groups have come to the social resorts in this order: First, artists and writers in search of good scenery and solitude; second, professors and clergymen and other so-called solid people with long vacations in search of the simple life; third, “nice millionaires” in search of a good place for their children to lead the simple life (as lived by the “solid people”); fourth, “naughty millionaires” who wished to associate socially with “nice millionaires” but who built million dollar cottages and million dollar clubs, dressed up for dinner, gave balls and utterly destroyed the simple life; and fifth, trouble.
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