Re: Clothing costs
There's also an arguable point that the blue-jeans-and-t-shirt look (w/out designer labels or etc. - purely functional) is Status -1 clothing, not Status 0. It's very common, but America idolizes many working-class professions and it's sort of a cultural quirk that this clothing style is endemic even among the middle class and into the lower-upper class.
And of course it's spread from America to many other places.
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