Yeah I have a few friends like this (I suppose I'd qualify too). All self-made business people, with nothing to prove.
Some would dress pretty downscale and even travel that way -- we'd drink it up at someone's place then take public transportation to go out that night (this was in FSU). Imagine a couple guys get on the local crappy Czech-made tram where their combined net worth could pay the annual salaries of all tram drivers in the city.
It would be funny at clubs too, because the people at the clubs knew them and their spending habits (i.e. they would party hard), so the staff never cared about them being dressed shoddily and so on.
Then we'd get a good laugh like one friend would open a chick, she'd shun him off, but in the end of the day, she's some secretary who only owns one nice outfit and she's wearing it that night, and our friend was very wealthy and just didn't show it. So it's like the golddigger just walked away from the gold. But that's also an FSU thing since they like to flaunt it, while this is much less common in western cultures. Go into a Nordstrom in a nice part of the US and the people who look more dressed down are usually the wealthier ones (especially if it's simple but very high quality clothing).
Some would dress pretty downscale and even travel that way -- we'd drink it up at someone's place then take public transportation to go out that night (this was in FSU). Imagine a couple guys get on the local crappy Czech-made tram where their combined net worth could pay the annual salaries of all tram drivers in the city.
It would be funny at clubs too, because the people at the clubs knew them and their spending habits (i.e. they would party hard), so the staff never cared about them being dressed shoddily and so on.
Then we'd get a good laugh like one friend would open a chick, she'd shun him off, but in the end of the day, she's some secretary who only owns one nice outfit and she's wearing it that night, and our friend was very wealthy and just didn't show it. So it's like the golddigger just walked away from the gold. But that's also an FSU thing since they like to flaunt it, while this is much less common in western cultures. Go into a Nordstrom in a nice part of the US and the people who look more dressed down are usually the wealthier ones (especially if it's simple but very high quality clothing).