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Upvoted for your mention of dressing to signal your respect for others. It seems many geeks rarely think of this. To many geeks I have known, their down-dressin
by alaithea 17y ago
Upvoted for your mention of dressing to signal your respect for others. It seems many geeks rarely think of this. To many geeks I have known, their down-dressing is about their comfort and desire to buck mainstream culture. That's fine, but it would be nice if they realized that dressing nice at work or out with friends can also mean you think those around you were worth some effort. After all, you don't have to look at yourself all day, but everybody else does.
- tommorris 17y agoI respect you enough to think you are a person who can find more useful signals of respect than the ability to memorise and abide by arbitrary rules laid out by the unseen gods of menswear. ;)
- xenophanes 17y agoIt's not just memorizing. That's the problem. If it was memorizing, my iPhone could memorize it for me. You have to think about fashion. And I don't want to. And I don't want other people to invade my mind and dictate part of its contents.
- shard 17y agoThen you are a better person than I. If someone speaks too familiarly, acts too familiarly, or dresses too familiarly in a serious or business setting, I will not be thinking that he respects me enough to think that I am a person who can find more useful signals of respect than the ability to memorise and abide by arbitrary rules laid out of the unseen gods of grammar, social conventions, or menswear. I will be thinking that he has no respect.
- prodigal_erik 17y agoIf I dress up for you, I'm announcing that I believe you can be manipulated by a simple costume change. I'm not above using that tactic but it certainly isn't out of respect.