Err, a lot of virtue signalling going on here perhaps? When else would you wear your medals in retirement other than on occasions such as Remembrance Services? if you're serving you'll have to wear the ribbons anyway, and the medals themselves when so ordered (as a fellow cadet at RAFC found to his cost when his Coronation Medal was a constant excuse for attracting yet another charge; tarnish, dust, finger prints, whatever came to mind). Aversion to ever wearing them in retirement rather smacks of Donkey Jackets at the Cenotaph or Lounge Suits at a Guildhall banquet. If it is called for wear them, if not don't. Anyway, how else will anyone ever know I was awarded a GSM as a Cold War Warrior?