Wear the dhb loud and proud and smack the poseurs all over the hills
Lot of love here for DHB and they do turn out decent products at reasonable prices. As with anything though, you have to ask how they manage to achieve such good value. There were threads on UK boards of a designer approaching them with some ideas, getting turned down, then suddenly finding similar designs for sale. You can argue if it was a rip off or not but at the end of the day you don't get something for nothing! If it were easy to make top quality products at low prices then everyone would be doing it. The more hipster way OTT kit is just exploiting a certain share of the market in another way and if people are happy to pay the money then let them.
It is interesting that only a couple of years ago my LBS used to be full of Assos, then they dropped it because it got too expensive and everyone turned to Castelli and now they are thinning down the Castelli stock as the prices have risen (seems to be about 20% or more here in the UK compared to a year or two ago- possibly the distributor protecting prices or high distributor costs?). The shop seem to stock a lot more Gore and Endura although their stuff doesn't do it for me personally. The mid to high end kit at decent prices seems to be a little thin on the ground at least here in the UK. I've turned to Sportful recently and can't complain at all so I guess there are still reasonable options out there
But not so surprising I guess as some people post their socks/ shoes/ calves here on WW too 
Worst thing of it all is most of that calves-selfies end up as crotch shots!
