You are middle class or finer if all of your cutlery have matching patterns.
I was pre-stainless steel and we ate with real silver silverware that was a wedding gift when my parents got married. I have inherited three sets of old school silverware but we use a set of Onida Stainless. Polishing the silverware was my job when I was a kid. I don't even break out the silver for the holidays anymore. We were lower-middle-class as far as our disposable income. My Mom couldn't work because she had to take care of my retarded little brother. He was profoundly retarded and was arrested at about the stage where a normal kid would be at 18 to 24 months. A BIG toddler that never talked or grew up. He cost a lot of money to take care of so we were pretty tight for money most of the time.
That said we lacked for nothing that was really needed and though we stayed close to home we did go out to eat once a month and went to see the Grandmothers once a month. Our house was THE meeting place for all the women on the street. Thursday was hair day and I would try to get up and GONE before they started. I hated the way that stuff they used to do perms smelled!!!
In the afternoon after supper, Mama made coffee and they took it out in the front yard. The neighbors would come and visit until it got close to dark. Houses that don't have AC are hot after all the cooking and need time after supper to cool off some.
Back then women didn't work outside of the home much. If a woman took a job it meant that the husband wasn't able to adequately support them. (Not really but that was the way people looked at it back then.) Different times different attitudes. Families were bigger back then too. We had one family that ended up having 17 kids. They eventually bought the house next door to them and turned it into the bunkhouse. They were good Catholics and happily took as many babies as the Lord offered to them. Good people, good kids, and they all grew up to be good responsible adults. He worked in a refinery all day and then owned and operated a bar at night. She ran the house like a sergeant and everyone including the Hubby had jobs and the older kids were in charge of some of the younger kids. Eating there was a lot like eating at Luby's!!
The world has changed so much!!! Things that we didn't make much note of then would be shocking now and a LOT of things now would probably have given my Mama the vapors!!!