What makes someone look rich / wealthy?

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Piggy backing onto the LV bag thread - so many responses saying you can tell if the bag is fake / real depending on the persons hair and general look.

I've really noticed this where I live during lockdown - even though we're all predominantly in scruffy clothes / gym gear (just me?!) you can just tell some people look 'rich' - for lack of a better word.

What is it? It's like an unspoken code or something.

@IncandescentSilver

Othering The young lad is royalty. Dutch I think, can't quite remember but that sort of region.

I wrote The bright blue of the jacket looks either European or American posh and am tragically feeling pleased with myself now.

Giving myself a biscuit

Enjoy it. You deserve it!🙂

he looks like he’s a grammar school kid, turned up at the office for his first work experience day, been told tits a “dress for his day” Policy

He looks remarkably calm after having been told “tits a dress for your day”.

Very good teeth. Expensive but casual clothes. Subtle makeup. Thick hair. Impeccable manners (the type that always makes the other person feel good / comfortable / at ease.) Glowing skin. Everything understated.

It seems to start at school - DD2 & 3's close friends go to private school (mine are state school), there is just something different in the way they are. A certain air of confidence, being totally at ease in any situation because they are certain of themselves or at least know how to project that, also a way of making other people feel at ease.

Thick hair. Impeccable manners (the type that always makes the other person feel good / comfortable / at ease.) Glowing skin. Everything understated.

Yeah right, all rich people happen to have thick hair despite of genetics, same re glowing skin. Even the old money rich women who live in country mansions often have ruddy dry skin due to being outdoors a lot in all weathers. They would have manners, ok with that. The newly rich - often salon skin but manners not great .

To have ALL of the above in one person - that's a small minority of the rich.

I find this interesting, probably because I’m the nosey type. I love wondering what background someone has.

There does seem to be two fairly big ‘rich’ camps of old money. And it seems the longer money has been around in their families/generations - the less someone looks ‘glossy groomed’ but more ‘crumpled confidence’. When I see glossy groomed it is more often women - not sure if this is just a sexist thing to say but it’s just what I notice - very glossy women but the men generally have the money.

Crumpled confidence - I see equally in men and women and it’s always established money for generations. I’ve known three Lords and ladies sons and daughters in my time and every single one of them was not glossy groomed at all. All had different styles of dress, and none of them really put themselves together that well really to be honest! In fact the most prominent Lords daughter I know, dresses down and has never had a blow dry in her life.

Sadly I am neither rich, titled or glossy! I wouldn’t mind one or the other!

I think hair is a big one. Rarely see a rich person with split ends. I’d say they afford (time and money) to have a regular trim every 6 weeks ...

Almost everyone I know (except me!) has their hair trimmed every six weeks, so it can't be that.

What do people think of this picture? Rich or not? I think he looks rich. Lovely thick hair, great haircut, nice skin, poised, chinos, shirt, casual jacket but it's just that extra something that sets him apart that's so hard to quantify.

He just looks like a young man dressed for a day at the races to me.

Giving myself a biscuit
I do hope it's a Rose and Pistachio fine finger from F&M, dahling! That dreadful McVities rubbish simply would not do.

The man in the picture looks like an insufferable right wing twat btw.

Great shoes

Anyone can be rich. You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. A lot of the ‘old money’ types you described aren’t even wealthy just posh and some ‘nouveau riche’ are drowning in debt. You would just never know.
That’s why they teach sales assistants in luxury stores to treat everyone nicely because you never know who has money or not. Rich people spend their money differently based on what’s important to them. Especially in this generation where there’s so many different sources of wealth from YouTubers, tech start ups, rappers and athletes you can’t associate a certain look to being wealthy.

These threads annoy the hell out of me.
"Good gait"
Really?
So anyone with a physical disability is automatically poor then?

I think 'looking rich' is not the best statement. You can look 'upper class' but I know a LOT of rich people who don't look it or act it in the same way as a lot of these responses like poise/gloss/self assuredness etc. I also have a few upper class friends who you can tell straight away that they've been brought up completely differently to most other people I know.

From reading this thread, I can only deduce that I’m actually incredibly wealthy and the bank must be hiding my millions somewhere I can’t see.

I don’t have hard features, I do have thick hair, my kids are dressed in grubby nice quality clothes, DD’s hair could do with a brush that’s a fight waiting to happen, my car is a 15 year old 4x4 and covered in mud, kids mess and a few stray dog hairs, I don’t really care what I look like as I’m too tired to get it together unless I absolutely have to, and I sound posh apparently.

In reality I’m an overweight knackered sahm with kids that will get filthy dirty in a sterile room and I’m miles away from loaded

@ViciousJackdaw

Giving myself a biscuit I do hope it's a Rose and Pistachio fine finger from F&M, dahling! That dreadful McVities rubbish simply would not do.

The man in the picture looks like an insufferable right wing twat btw.

He’s just a young prince. You are being harsh.

Nicholas Soames (the real thing) of Jacob Rees-Mogg (the upstart faker)

 “  ... a good example of what a posh accent and a moderately-cut, double-breasted suit can do for you “

Now, /that/ is a prince of put-downs!

My wealthy friends tend to be more scruffy old cloths worn to the bitter end. Old Barbour jackets that have that smell to them and ancient cars

Thick hair- Prince Charles? Prince William? Good gait??? There's such a lot of rubbish on here.

You couldn't POSSIBLY call Ed Sheeran or Charlie Whatsisname (the plumber) posh, or indeed as someone else noted, the kids who blog, footballers and many TV presenters et al. They have money but no class whatsoever.
Have you ever noticed that classy women are often slim/skinny, wear pared down make-up and don't wear hair extensions or gel nails?

@Lobipolaxe

My wealthy friends tend to be more scruffy old cloths worn to the bitter end. Old Barbour jackets that have that smell to them and ancient cars

Old cloths? Poor souls.

@LoisLane66

You couldn't POSSIBLY call Ed Sheeran or Charlie Whatsisname (the plumber) posh, or indeed as someone else noted, the kids who blog, footballers and many TV presenters et al. They have money but no class whatsoever. Have you ever noticed that classy women are often slim/skinny, wear pared down make-up and don't wear hair extensions or gel nails?

Money does not equal class.

What is it? It's like an unspoken code or something.

Generally if someone is wealthy, they look it. Now they might look scruffy or flashy etc but you can still tell they have money.

There's an outdated trope of MNs that wealthy people dress in rags & drive bangers. Of course some do but equally plenty of wealthy people like to dress in designer & drive sports cars

I would say that the one common trend regardless of style is that the women tend to be very slim.

I hate the word “trope”. It is so nouveau or in more common parlance “try hard”.

The question was being wealthy and being rich. Mumsnet seems obsessed with class. You can be a very classy women and carry yourself well and not be particularly rich. There’s no one “look”of wealth being posh doesn’t equate to being rich.