We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?