First- Welcome Yellow. You don't need to use honourifics here, noone is esteemed, all ideas are open to debate and everyone starts with the same blank slate.
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So on this day, a student appears wearing the shirt of Dr. Yang Jwing Ming. Immediately we take this as a double sign, 1) this person may be looking to challenge and doesn't seem open-minded or they would know this to be inappropriete, and 2) it is potentially insulting to a former teacher to visit a new school wearing their old shirt because it makes them a kind of "representative". We assess that this person may have certain physical training but may still be uninitiated to the higher philosophy of Kung Fu. We instantly seek to set the ground such address such.
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Judging someone because of the teeshirt they wear is just plain silly. For all anyone at the time knew he bought it off a website, it was a gift or was simply the only thing available to work out in.
I'm not defending Wushu, I don't even know the guy, but c'mon- you can't seriously expect people to know all the "rules". I would dare to point out that by prejudging him for wearing a kungfu shirt, you yourself could be seen as closeminded. If Wushu felt all this prejudging I'll bet it lent to his experience and bent his view. I know it would mine.
Side story related to this. I walked into a dojo wearing an teeshirt from a highly respected dojo in Japan. I was treated like gold for 2 hours. Then they actually took the time to ask me how long I trained at said dojo to which I replied "it was a gift from my father in law". Suddenly I'm not so great anymore. Well, they lost a student that day and I told everyone I knew interested in MAs about the place.
I have a jujutsu shirt that was recently given to me as a gift by my sister, I've never practiced at that school nor would I, it does however cover my skin rather nicely.
-bamboo