So what? Buying a real Birkin is a stupid status symbol, and so is spending the same amount on knock offs.

I thought of this as an economics experiment. What does hobo washing cost? Basically taking a guy covered in filth, and do all the steps needed to get him the finest clothes in the country, at the most exclusive...no that's always a rip off, some reasonable version of that that isn't extortionate. So how many times do you have to buy an intermediate change clothes that lets you shop at the next place?

There was a scene in Pretty Woman about this, Julia Roberts is unable to buy clothes at the nice place because she shows up dressed like a prostitute, so they have to work around that.