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Originally Posted by maleficent
I have a friend who sells real estate, and I've heard this from car dealers as well, they'll usually check out the shoes and the wrist watch of their prospective clients, because it's often a good indicator of how much money they have to spend.. How accurate that is? I don't know-- but I've heard it being used as an indicator.
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Expensive shoes and watches are a good sign wherever you find them. But in some locales, their absence proves nothing. On the coast of California are certain well-to-do communities where many people with money dress very casually -- shorts, polo shirt or Hawaiian shirt, sandals. And of course many people without money dress similarly. The trick is is judging how well-made and well-styled the clothing is. The clever eye can tell who shopped at Nordstrom's and who shopped at Target, even if the clothes are superficially similar. Aside from that, look for a really good haircut, and flawless teeth. A lot of well-off people out here don't bother with the wristwatch anymore. They get their time off their cell or PDA.