I don't know; I've just finished watching the film Casino, in which poor Robert de Niro is required to wear a shiny sky-blue suit and matching loafers. I have also heard, on good authority, of a Kazakh man who worked for a well-known firm of City solicitors and who wore a purple polyester suit (without having it cleaned for 8 months). Bertie Wooster had a pair of Old Etonian spats. The point being that the clothes that we find ludicrous - think also of the Americans' liking for pastel coats, and golf clothing - do not, in themselves, define someone as being a fop. There should surely be something outrageous and (perhaps) effeminate about a fop, which distinguishes him from a dandy, who is just a well-dressed man. Frankly, if you are buying off-the-peg clothes, I don't see how you can begin to qualify, because you lack the originality required. (talk)