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Is the sandals with socks thing some sort of deliberate middle-finger? In NYC on a stage, no less.
by rubashov 15y ago
Is the sandals with socks thing some sort of deliberate middle-finger? In NYC on a stage, no less.
- metra 15y agoBirkenstocks with socks is okay: http://www.gq.com/style/style-guy/shoes/200309/birkenstocks http://www.gq.com/style/style-guy/shoes/200309/birkenstocks
- rubashov 15y agoBirkenstocks are never OK.
- pjscott 15y agoAnd fashion snobbery is? Birkenstocks are a kind of footwear. Lots of people like them. What's the point of getting affronted by this? Does it make the world anything other than worse?
- samlevine 15y agoClothing communicates information. Although this information is highly contextual, it is still information. Understanding that people judge you by how you dress isn't snobbery, it's accepting reality.
- btilly 15y agoI use my footwear as a test. If you don't like me simply because I'm wearing comfortable sandals, then I wouldn't have liked you either and I've saved us both a spot of trouble.
- thomasgerbe 15y agoHe didn't say he didn't like him. He just doesn't like a facet of his fashion. I don't like Crocs or Uggs. I don't think people look good while wearing them. But that doesn't mean I don't like them.
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- mattgreenrocks 15y agoI can't tell if you're talking about this as if it actually means something or not.
- rhygar 15y agoIt was a deliberate choice. When packing for a trip to NY and thinking about what you're going to wear onstage, one does not "accidentally" wear socks with sandals. Pg is a very smart guy - clearly he knows what the impact would be. I think it has more to do with maintaining a kind of legitimacy/authenticity within the hacker community than anything else. It's just good business sense to be the opposite of what geeks don't like/understand: VCs in suits. When you're in the business of funding businesses, you want to be approachable.