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Agree with you that there's a nice medium level of "nice clothes" that look more formal and are more generally comfortable (though things like "jeans, but made

Agree with you that there's a nice medium level of "nice clothes" that look more formal and are more generally comfortable (though things like "jeans, but made from synthetics so they stretch and move more lightly" and such are making inroads in the comfort department). > Incidentally, we in (at least certain segments of) this industry definitely have a look. I've got a pretty good record of spotting tech workers in non-tech-heavy areas and settings based solely on clothes & affect taken in from a distance, and I don't just mean when one's wearing legible clothing with some tech slogans or logos on them. IMO, for men, there's a handful of main looks, and they're all pretty different for each other. "Nerd", "scruffy hacker", "fitness bro" are the ones I see most frequently.

bamfly 3y ago
> IMO, for men, there's a handful of main looks, and they're all pretty different for each other. "Nerd", "scruffy hacker", "fitness bro" are the ones I see most frequently. Oh, for sure, some are easy-mode, though. Conference T and cargo shorts with sandals (possibly including white socks). Rumpled, slouchy shirt and pants outfit parts of which surely date back to a goth phase, but softened by the rest of the ensemble (how do you tell the difference between that and rural-town convenience store clerk? Some combo of age, other grooming, and various details—more feel than science). That kind of thing. Ivy-league/MIT 2-year-veteran FAANG is a look, but about half that's body language rather than clothes.