Clothes send messages and each item has its own language, you cannot alter its message, only recognize the symbol and use it to its and your best advantage.

Appropriateness for a given purpose, although items are elegant in their own right they may not be appropriate for a purpose. The most beautifully made light brown shoe is useless to impress a table full of bankers.
Recently I appeared at a barbeque restaurant in a navy suit with pink pinstripes, pink/blue/white checked shirt and  blue necktie with small pink and white elephants; hip for the office or even a smart restaurant but a miserable failure for Rub in NYC. Made myself uncomfortable and made my guests uncomfortable. Fortunately, they knew I was into clothes.

It occurs to me that there is no higher universal elegance in the light grey suit, no matter how well made and detailed, and there is no absolute safety in the charcoal pinstripe outside of the more conservative work circles.
And clothes exist at different levels of generality. A cloth can be beautiful but made up in a way that turns someone off.