A Beat by wifer is like a wife beater (white sleeveless shirt) but it's black instead. (Opposite of white is black.... opposite of someone who beats their wife is someone who get's beat by their wife)
"Charlie wore a beat by wifer to his best friends funeral, I know you're suppose to wear black at funerals but come on!"
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)