I was at a BBQ a few years back and I had a logo free RL Madras shirt on. Most of the guys were logoed up with the pony in evidence. A couple asked about my shirt and when I told them they couldn't believe I would buy a logo free shirt and they insisted in must be a 'knock off' if it was RL.
I had to educate them on footwear, as well.
I think clothes increasingly play a minor role in communicating affluence, other than an anonymous, low-key, deliberately unremarkable navy blue-ness which you do see people of significant wealth sporting. The true indicators of wealth and privilege are actually expressed more through the physical - teeth, hair, accent, skin, manners. As a scouser with no hair and bad teeth I can never pull of a convincing portrayal of wealth, but I can look quite hunky in a herringbone jacket. I say please and thank you too much which also gives the game away that I am a pleb, in search of approval. Did Frosty ever say please and thank you? I think not.
Frosty was probably much like my first wife, Selina, who hailed from a very, very middle-class family in which manners did not play a significant role. Yet she got things done.
The working class of my generation, if they had parents who were 'traditional' to some degree, had decent manners hammered in them like washing their hands before meals.
An expert on language argued plausibly some years ago that to say 'Please' and 'Thank you' in England had become seen as somehow 'affected'.
Not unlike wearing proper clothing properly - wearing a tie with your suit instead of looking like some trendy left-wing politician or TV pundit.
Derek Hatton at least polished his shoes if not his accent.
'Deliberately unremarkable'.
There are certain theories about colour and the individual wearer. In brief, the further down the social ladder you are, the more lurid the colour.
There is also the propensity - as we're all well aware - for chaps (and ladies) to enjoy proclaiming - or screaming - Big Pony! Burberry check! (Or what you will). In other words they must tell the world what it is they're wearing because of their total lack of significance.
Watches - as we've said before - are another example. Then there are personalized number-plates, which mark the driver of the vehicle out as a complete ponce.