John Ellis
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What I take to be the core of your post comes down to personal standards, when given flesh and blood render themselves as personal style.
My basic rule is dress appropriately to the occasion but then personal taste comes in and makes everything a bit blurry. It used to eat me up internally what people would pick out or the styling requested and I would have to make for them. (I am a tailor) To resolve the issue I resigned myself to know it was about their self perception and their signature look and not my place to redefine those ideas. This gave me a sense of peace about the matter.
My conclusion. Understatement is undervalued.
I think you have it exactly right Despos. So much of our choice of clothing is about our perceptions of self. Over the years I've found that the perceptions that I had of myself proved incorrect in many cases(I have the pictures to prove it) and by a process of trial and error have hit on a personal presentation which in shorthand terms I'll call pure Flusser. Basically the classical rules which make even not particularly attractive late middle aged folks like me look pretty good. In fact better than pretty good sometimes so that attractive woman go WOW which does wonders for one's self esteem. Actually I love understatement and overstatement provided they work. And there are rules of a sort for overstatement. Hence all this debate about tweeds. Some loud, and I mean loud baby, tweeds can look great in London or NYC some look simply preposterous. Without having the garments here it's tough to define but like quality which is hard to describe, you know it when you see it.