Men's Clubs, And Watches

For no reason whatsoever, I shall be talking a little about old gentlemen's clubs - well they will need to be 'old' because I am trying to refer to things which no longer exist anywhere except perhaps in my front rooms...!

I regularly take a look at magazines and internet magazines about the so-called 'world of the luxury consuming and wealth-possessing elite' - and all I get is a bunch of stuff about Singapore, or brand-name restaurants and hotels in New York well and truly past their prime. The Singapore stuff is, albeit definitely full of cash and property-rich people, just a parody of 'ideas' from the olden days about what constitutes the 'luxury lifestyle.'

It's at a men's club somewhere,
I don't know where

Do men's clubs have women members? Well yes, they do and may do, except the women ought to dress properly - which in fact means they can wear tuxedos and pants. Not many people know that women are permitted to wear tuxedos to formal or semi-formal affairs and it does not or need not imply they are lesbian.

Some of -, no no all of the world's best bespoke men's suite-makers make trouser-ed attire for women clientele. 

Even the Milanese men's fashion platform - Pitti Uomo - has examples of clothing for women that consists of ostensibly, or otherwise, male fashion styles.  

And what has this got to do with anything? Nothing at all. It's just that I feel it is another one of those things which appears to be going along with my recent theme about popular expectations and perceptions of 'truth' and 'reality.' Many people might think I'm wrong about the above stuff. And they won't be the people within the social circles in which there are these kinds of things worn:

$800,000 watches!