How to look wealthy on a shoestring budget?!

[Rooftop1]

Just that!

By being slim, healthy looking, having good glowing skin, having short, neat nails unpainted or in a very dark or nude colour, no talons with glitter/patterns/nail art.

A simple hairstyle, a long bob or similar. Nothing over-styled, no outlandish colours. The more natural the better, but well blow dried and smooth. Good highlights always look expensive, but then they are expensive.

Simple, understated make up and jewellery. A nude face with just mascara and a red lipstick, or full make up but in very natural, understated colours. No over the top contouring, no huge fake lashes. No sharpie brows or very obvious lip filler or cheek filler.

Simple, elegant clothes, in black, grey, white, beige, camel, navy. Linen dresses, simple wool cardigans, well cut jeans, blazers, white shirts, silky vest tops and lots of layering. Plain blocks of colour, not too much pattern. Natural fabrics wherever possible.

Blazers and brogues - the very words make me feel 🤮

A decent recent haircut - even if a DIY cut.
Matchy matchy accessories

I've been told by teen DD this look is #OldMoneyAesthetic. If you wanted a hashtag for tiktok ot pinterest ideas.

I love this style but have neither the money or figure to do it properly. My version is that I wear my colours (Autumn) so Navy, brown, cream and forest green. Tan or brown leather bag and shoes. Natural makeup and hair colour.

Being classy makes you feel sick? Very strange indeed.

Good posture and stances. More rigid and only proposeful movements

I accidentally went into a market research focus group for women investors and they were all dressed in trousers, shirt and v neck jumper , like in this picture.

Less is more
Understated make up, simple neutral clothes in natural fabrics
No fillers or obvious Botox
Well cut jeans, white shirt blazer and loafers
Nice subtle perfume
No obvious logos
For the shoestring budget Vinted every time
Well cut shiny hair

There's no problem looking like you've been dragged through a hedge backwards as long as you have the self-confidence to pull it off, which is what true (old) wealth gives you. Anything too pristine or new is suspicious. Definitely no white range rovers.

No!

If I dressed like the woman in the market research pic I'd be addressed as Sir ...

that's not the point, is it?

I've just googled #oldmoneyaesthetic, and the key thing they all have in common is a pair of sunglasses worn whatever the weather, so you could start with that!

I wonder if you actually mean how to look glamorous, cos wealthy people can look quite ordinary.

What car you have is no longer a signifier of general wealth, particularly if it's a white range rover, often known as the hairdresser's or beautician's car. There are loads of ordinary people, not poor, but not wealthy, who are happy to spend hundreds and hundreds every month on car financing so they can have a car like that, even though they don't have a large income and live in a fairly mediocre rented property and would never be able to afford such a car if they had to buy outright.

In terms of looking wealthy, throwing money at your appearance does not correlate with actually looking well-off. Some mothers at my grandchild's school clearly spend quite a lot of money on fake tans, tattoos, lip fillers, hair dye, make up, fake nails with lots of patterns and colours, yet their clothes especially their shoes look very cheap.
As others have said, to look well-off, less is more, less of the above stuff but more natural fabrics, clean leather shoes, simple jewellery, good watch, good hair cut( frequently natural grey on older women).

Love this🥰

Buy the best quality you can, second hand if necessary.
Be groomed and polished. Be slim ( not necessarily thin).
High fashion isn't necessary. Better something gorgeous from 3 years ago than something mediocre from this year.

Me too 🙈😂

No tattoos, no acrylic nails, no HD brows.

Wear the loudest pattern in loudest colour in the most wrinkly linen and you’ll look wealthy but awful!

Charity shops in posh areas - look for natural fabrics - silk, linen, cotton, wool

Classic hair - don't try to be edgy, don't try dyeing your hair weird colours and if you do dye your hair, keep up with the roots

Posture

Vinted and Ebay

Classic nails - shortish, French manicure or neutral, keep up with chips

Keep your clothes simple, with few patterns and keep accessories toned with the outfit

Find your own style and have attitude like confidence and kindness

This thread is hilarious and says more about what people think old money/new money dresses like, as opposed to how they are. New money wears gym kit for private school drop offs, they are the ones with disgusting white land rovers or similar status symbol cars. Old money I find more classically dressed (not bothered by trends or flash cars), they generally spend their money on multiple homes (think coastal pad in St Ives and farmhouse in France) and education of course. It’s given me a good Monday morning giggle reading through.

Only new money drive those vulgar cars. Its purposeful display of wealth shows a level of desperation and insecurity that those with trust funds just don’t have.