Basically, what SSD said. In my original post I said
"Just seen a photo in the UK Pilot magazine of someone wearing 4 gold bars with a mil-spec flying suit. A little OTT?
It was a question - and some of the answers have been illuminating! My opinion (and it is only mine) - if you call yourself Captain of a rented C-150, and turn up to fly it dressed like a North Korean General or a cast member from HMS Pinafore that's up to you, but a bit OTT for me. I'm sure you don't even notice the sniggering, so if it makes you happy - why not? As the great pop philosopher Adam Ant once wrote "ridicule is nothing to be scared of'.