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I don’t think it’s really about the clothes being uncomfortable, but just the idea of being forced to wear certain kinds of clothes

marcosdumay 4y ago
Are you sure you aren't just unconsciously repeating the same prejudice, but from a different click? How will the people around you react to you using a suit? If it's badly, you are as much forced to wear a certain kind of clothes as the GP was. Anyway, just because there is a dressing code, it doesn't mean that the culture normally associated with it dominates. Those are two different things, where one is a huge problem, and the other mostly irrelevant. It's always better if you react to problems that are rally there, instead of noisy proxies.
janeerie 4y ago
Plus the expense of maintaining two different wardrobes.
- corrral 4y ago
  The trad thing is that your old clothes become your casual clothes, mostly. Except athletic clothes—but half those are dress or business-casual now, anyway, like OCBDs and polos—most of our modern athletic clothes counted as underwear, before, if they existed at all. And it doesn't really work for full-on formal wear like dinner jackets or morning dress. A bunch of suiting trends come from this. Suit jacket with ruined pants? Now it's a blazer, so, casual wear. Handmedown worn 3-button suit that you're wearing casually at college, with the top button pretty much permanently unbuttoned? You've just invented the 2-roll-3 jacket style. And so on. We've replaced this behavior with simply having all our clothes be disposable-cheap. Mending a hole and adding patches to keep wearing something's not really worth it when it cost $20 to begin with.
- michaelcampbell 4y ago
  A(nother) good point. In my case the compensation adequately covered it; I guess some others' don't, which was a blind spot in my post. To defend myself a bit, though, most conversations I see around this topic are referring to comfort.
michaelcampbell 4y ago
That's a valid point, but all of us, every day, are subject to rules, mores, peer pressure, etc. No one TRULY does exactly what they want, all the time. Different people can value these rules in different amounts, and to your point, I didn't value "what I'm wearing" as much as some other people do, so I get you.

marcosdumay 4y ago

Are you sure you aren't just unconsciously repeating the same prejudice, but from a different click? How will the people around you react to you using a suit? If it's badly, you are as much forced to wear a certain kind of clothes as the GP was. Anyway, just because there is a dressing code, it doesn't mean that the culture normally associated with it dominates. Those are two different things, where one is a huge problem, and the other mostly irrelevant. It's always better if you react to problems that are rally there, instead of noisy proxies.

janeerie 4y ago

Plus the expense of maintaining two different wardrobes.

corrral 4y ago
The trad thing is that your old clothes become your casual clothes, mostly. Except athletic clothes—but half those are dress or business-casual now, anyway, like OCBDs and polos—most of our modern athletic clothes counted as underwear, before, if they existed at all. And it doesn't really work for full-on formal wear like dinner jackets or morning dress. A bunch of suiting trends come from this. Suit jacket with ruined pants? Now it's a blazer, so, casual wear. Handmedown worn 3-button suit that you're wearing casually at college, with the top button pretty much permanently unbuttoned? You've just invented the 2-roll-3 jacket style. And so on. We've replaced this behavior with simply having all our clothes be disposable-cheap. Mending a hole and adding patches to keep wearing something's not really worth it when it cost $20 to begin with.
michaelcampbell 4y ago
A(nother) good point. In my case the compensation adequately covered it; I guess some others' don't, which was a blind spot in my post. To defend myself a bit, though, most conversations I see around this topic are referring to comfort.

michaelcampbell 4y ago

That's a valid point, but all of us, every day, are subject to rules, mores, peer pressure, etc. No one TRULY does exactly what they want, all the time. Different people can value these rules in different amounts, and to your point, I didn't value "what I'm wearing" as much as some other people do, so I get you.