Check out all of the mafia fanboys on youtube. Their only interest in the mob is the race angle, that the mob had "class" while the "gang bangers sag their pants and talk like 10 year olds", etc.
The mob dressed classy back in the day because everyone did, including poor people of all races. Everyone wore suits in the 1940s. lol.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
