Dress codes vary from culture to culture. One of the signs of a well-dressed man in European and American culture is clean and polished shoes. Polished shoes communicate self respect and an awareness of proper dress codes. People notice how you dress and evaluate your place in society by such things as how you care for your shoes. Dirty or scuffed shoes communicate a careless attitude and poor training. Dress codes are so important in Western culture that there are popular books for sale which relate scientific studies of the effect of colors, and clothing styles upon other people. One well-known book in entitled DRESS FOR SUCCESS. So, there are such sayings as “Clothes make people”, “Good clothes open all doors”, “Fine feathers make fine birds”.