Why do people in stock exchanges wear clothes that looks like a 'flight suit' or something astro-not's like Katy Perry would wear?

I'm assuming there is functional purpose behind it, but most people don't have any idea how a stock exchange works or know what stock trading actually is.

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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

Many floor traders wear distinctive outfits, to identify wgich broker that work for, for similar reasons that jockeys weat patterned silks. So that at a distance they can quickly be positively identidied as they call offers and prices..😷