Does Style affect/effect Attitude or Perception.

I think there's a higher likelihood that you'll be treated well if you look you make an effort.

As a blanket statement, I do not trust people with a tucked in shirt and no belt.

But judging people on their appearance is also dangerous. A family friend always looks near homeless on weekends shorts and a battered polo with flip flops, if you don't pay attention to the thirty some year old Patek Phillippe. He went to buy a car, was ignored by the sales staff and went to the other MB dealer, paid cash for a CL63 (could have been a 65) and drove it back to the first dealer and asked to speak to the manager about why no one would sell him one there.

IH head to toe? Goofy cult member, ignore.

But what does expensive/quality/styling Work Wear say about a person? Or how I'd a wearer of such perceived?

Nothing. It's workwear. 99% of the people that see you see workwear and dickies/carhart etc. No one can tell it's a 500$ iron heart jacket. It just looks like a mil surp jacket.

I have had people notice fades before on jeans. Seems to be something people picks up on.

-I've been told "I can never tell if you're about to go to work, or do a photo shoot."

-At work (IT-ish environment, with outdoors dirty work too), I've been told by our customer "We always come get you instead of the other guys because you look like you're ready to do work..." (Other guys wear casual khakis and polo shirts)

-I wear my same wardrobe for daily life, work and nightlife... At a bar I was told about my clothes "I don't get it, but I like it".

There's generally a warm reception all around, because even if I'm wearing beach clothes, it's still quality items and well put together outfits. BUT, one thing I've noticed is people tend to be really nice when I wear a vest. Idk why, but it really seems people are drawn to them. At my favorite bar, the owner/lead bartender has given me the deal of "Every time you come here wearing a vest, your first drink is on me". Every Saturday, I wear a vest, we laugh and I accept my drink.

East vs West?

I'm talking about my interactions with Americans...

And furthermore, I would say 99% of Japanese have TERRIBLE fashion. A little known fact is that Japanese dudes are (Generally speaking) shockingly cheap! So much so, to the point that they don't even date/have sex/marry/have kids for fear of having to share their money or take away money from their hobbies... SERIOUSLY.

subjective statement is subjective.

Quoted twice for truth.  I've worked in the construction industry all of my life (on the equipment maintenance end) and I know "the millionaire next door" all too well.  The man who owned the first company I worked for wore shorts and a T shirt 99% of the time, shopped at Wal Mart for his clothes, didn't graduate 8th grade, drives his vehicles till they about 300,000 miles, and sold his company in 2005 for 51 million.  He is "retired" now but still has sources of income. 

When I see the guy in the suit, with the car, and the watch, trying to keep up with the Jones's I immediately think it's just a flashy guy with a lot of debt.  He may make a lot of money but he spends even more so he's not rich, he's no better than the single mom on minimum wage living paycheck to paycheck. 

The Millionaire next door is a good book btw on this topic.  I recommend it. 

Go to the AAAC forum and check out the many anti-denim douchey remarks being made. On the surface I think I understand their disdain but at the same time I think they're just being willfully ignorant about denim culture and the craftsmanship that goes into production. These are the same guys that would sneer at the idea of anyone paying $300 for a quality made IH flannel but then turn around and buy AE seconds because of 'value.'

Personally, I think it has much, much less to do with exactly what you wear, but rather if it looks like what you are wearing is a costume.

If you look like you belong in your clothes . . . that you are comfortable in them, you come off as authentic. If you look like you are trying to hard to project an image, i.e. you are wearing a costume, you come off as a clown, a fake, a phony. See also: the much-maligned hipster.

As an example, when you see someone like George W. Bush in a denim workshirt, he pulled it off. Ted Cruz, not so much. Both Texans, both east coast ivy league educated. And ironically, it's Bush who is the blue blood, yet he pulled it off.

(BTW, i am NOT in any way trying to bring politics into this, i've just seen way too many pix of Cruz at town halls in workwear on Gawker the last couple of months trying to be a "regular guy")

Hehe, like me? A $160 shirt for $300 or a $300 pair of shoes for $160? That is a funny situation.