I have never been the best dresser and I tend to wear casual clothes that I don't have to think much about, and in America, I rarely felt self-consious due to my attire. Here, even beggars are often better dressed than I am. I think part of it is just cultural norms, part of it is the quailty of fabrics available, and part of it is the availability of cheap labor for tailoring and emroidery. All but the poorest of the poor, who literally wear rags, wear nicer clothes (though they may only have one outfit). I am speaking about the men here... all women here dress even nicer, in colorful salwar kameez and sarees, even the women who live in the medians under the flyovers (again, it is probably their only outfit).