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People say you can tell the difference between an expensive suit and a cheap one, but I really don't think I can (and I wonder how many of the people who say they can really can - like with wine).
Ripped jeans and other deliberately scruffy clothes are often expensive.
Branded sportswear is super expensive, but almost-identical off-brand sportswear isn't.
I buy my own clothes from high street shops or online, but on the rare occasions when I go into posh/expensive clothes shops out of curiosity, I often feel the clothes look shapeless and unflattering and there's nothing I'd want to buy even if it were more affordable.
If there is a bias going in the direction the researchers say, I expect it's about class, in the cultural and not financial sense. Like, maybe a guy in a button-down shirt or cable-knit jumper is a PhD student or violin tutor, who has a low income and bought his outfit cheaply in a supermarket or charity shop, and maybe a guy in a football shirt and baseball cap is a successful plumber or minor-league footballer, who has a high income and spent a lot on his outfit. So the second guy is richer, the first guy is culturally higher-class, and we don't know which of them is more competent at what they do.
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