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Don't confuse fashion theory and the fashion industry. Geek culture, especially in SV, seems to have a quite specific anti-fashion with trickle-up influences. W
by subsystem 14y ago
Don't confuse fashion theory and the fashion industry. Geek culture, especially in SV, seems to have a quite specific anti-fashion with trickle-up influences. While many swear they aren't fashion conscience, they actually have quite strong connotations to things like suits.
- Tyrannosaurs 14y agoI've always found the geek attitude to clothing interesting. For people who in large part claim that clothes really aren't important (a) we can spend a lot of time talking about it if prompted and (b) we seem to establish clothing norms in a way that suggests we're not as anti/immune to fashion as we might like to think. The suits thing is a little different - that's usually a (somewhat reasonable) reaction to the judgemental side of what you wear = your competence. I have concerns when it goes too far (that people assume anyone wearing a suit is automatically a fool, which seems to me to be the same thing only in reverse). But that aside it seems that most geeks use clothing in exactly the same way as most people - express personality, as a uniform, as a way of showing interest in other cultural phenomenon and so on. We're usually not interested in "high fashion" but I'd be very sceptical about anyone saying that as a group we're not interested in fashion.