There was an interview with Sam Bankman Fried a few years ago where he bragged he only wore 3 t-shirts. That he didn't care about clothes. But he owned beautiful mansions all over the world and lavish apartments in New York and Paris.
So he walks around badly dressed on purpose making the public commons ugly for all of us, while owning beautiful homes he can enjoy in private.
It's this attitude that creates the modern ugly world. Make the public areas ugly. While enjoying beauty in private.
That's a new thing. Thankfully, we have beautiful cities from a long time ago that never adhered to that philosophy. We have wonderful paintings of people dressed spectacularly. Who cared about the aesthetic commons.
The biggest financial flex imaginable is not caring about material status symbols and keeping non-essential spending to the bare minimum.
I've seen so many takes about the importance of dressing well (the guy who tells you to wear a suit on an airplace-- lol) or buying the right watch or showing up to an event with an elite whip...
All terrible advice
The higher NW and liquidity you have... the more slovenly and ridiculous you should appear in your day to day comings and goings.