In my opinion, expensive clothes and goods can be a choice, but it is not an indicator to see whether someone is rich or poor. even many rich people choose a simple lifestyle, while others may dress luxuriously to express themselves. Therefore, to judge someone poor or rich is not measured by what they wear.
The measure of someone's rich or poor is not on what they wear, but rather on what they have in their lives and of course this will lead more to the amount of assets and also their power through business so that the person can truly be called rich by others. Because the one who judges the richness or poverty of each person is other people, not themselves because if someone who claims to be rich to other people openly, it could be that he is not actually rich. So the benchmark for this must depend heavily on other people's assessments based on what other people have seen of what the person already has, not on what the person wears on his body.
If what we measure is who is richer then of course appearance cannot be used as a benchmark for who is rich and who is poor, and in the picture we see that rich people look simple while poor people look luxurious, but that's only a part, because I would say that there are also rich people who look luxurious. So I think for the matter of appearance it depends on each person's taste, maybe there are people who think that by looking luxurious it makes people praise them and they feel proud of it even though their appearance drains their pockets especially for poor people. On the other hand I think regardless of whatever it is the point is if you do have a less than good financial situation then balance your lifestyle with the finances you have, simply don't buy something you don't really need, and it's better to prioritize something more important.
But we are living in a world on where there are tons of judgmental people on which they would really be basing up your status in life on how you do look and this is where wearing up something could help out to have that kind of impression of people towards you specially if you do wear up something plus having those expensive phones or whatever luxury that you could be able to obtain on which these people doesnt even know on what are the struggles and hardship that we are really that able to encounter. On the moment that storm comes and since you have spent all the money you do have earlier on buying into those luxury things,then you would really be having those kind of regrets on which it would be leading out into that kind of self realizations on which this is a normal reaction to have. Poor people or in average will really be having this kind of behavior.
Talking up generally about human behavior then we do really want for us to make that being updated into the latest things. Having that good looking and posture will really be giving out that kind of impression
on which it might end up for people to respect you specially if you do really look like rich because of what you do wore. Real rich or wealthy people are the ones who do wear up some simple plain shirt
and even some people do really wear up slippers as if they are really just that on their own houses on which if you do tend to compare both people and their status then you could be able to say
that looks isnt a solid indication for you to determine whether a person is rich or poor. There's no way on knowing it out directly.