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I agree with you about the news, but disagree about the suits. Most people still think a nice suit looks nice, and are automatically think the guy who looks li

I agree with you about the news, but disagree about the suits. Most people still think a nice suit looks nice, and are automatically think the guy who looks like he cares about how he looks is more capable or responsible than the hippy in a hoodie. Where this may be an exception is in tech but even then it's hardly universal. Edgar the Line Programmer and his buddies might dress like slobs because it signals they are not constrained by fuddy duddy old school managers like Mr. Rheinhard in the Matrix who was born before asynchronous IO was invented, but if you look at the people who really hold the power and money in tech, they are all wearing suits or at least looking very sharp if not actually donning a full three piece suit. There are reasons for this.

vdemario 12y ago
Mark Zuckerberg holds a lot of power. Sergey Brin holds a lot of power. How often do you see them in suits? This way of thinking is outdated.
- jimkri 12y ago
  It depends on the person. I am still in college and if you go to the business school, the students in there will say that a suit represents power. If you go to the CIS building it is the opposite. I have seen it, even though I do not think that a suit represents power, a lot of people still do.
- AdeptusAquinas 12y ago
  Those two don't go to meetings where they need to leave an impression on someone. When the CEO of my company (who wears jeans day to day) goes to a meeting with a new client, we wears a suit and tie so that the first five second impression the client gets is 'he isn't taking this seriously'. That's why this way of thinking is very much not outdated - its a quick and effective way to show commitment to something, even if in meetings going forward people are much more casual..
- ElComradio 12y ago
  So when you see Zuck speaking to an audience, is your thought more likely to be "Wow, this man is powerful, we need to take him seriously!" or is it, "Aw shucks there's Zuck, I can't believe he made a billion dollars"?
thrownaway2424 12y ago
Think of it in light of yesterday's HN discussion of minimalism in possessions. If you were only going to leave yourself with a few feet of closet space, what would you keep. The suit and your dress shirts, of course, and then maybe a sports coat and your sport shirts and then maybe a khaki. Now you can go anywhere. You can't say the same thing about a wardrobe consisting of t-shirts and shorts.

vdemario 12y ago

Mark Zuckerberg holds a lot of power. Sergey Brin holds a lot of power. How often do you see them in suits? This way of thinking is outdated.

jimkri 12y ago
It depends on the person. I am still in college and if you go to the business school, the students in there will say that a suit represents power. If you go to the CIS building it is the opposite. I have seen it, even though I do not think that a suit represents power, a lot of people still do.
AdeptusAquinas 12y ago
Those two don't go to meetings where they need to leave an impression on someone. When the CEO of my company (who wears jeans day to day) goes to a meeting with a new client, we wears a suit and tie so that the first five second impression the client gets is 'he isn't taking this seriously'. That's why this way of thinking is very much not outdated - its a quick and effective way to show commitment to something, even if in meetings going forward people are much more casual..
ElComradio 12y ago
So when you see Zuck speaking to an audience, is your thought more likely to be "Wow, this man is powerful, we need to take him seriously!" or is it, "Aw shucks there's Zuck, I can't believe he made a billion dollars"?

thrownaway2424 12y ago

Think of it in light of yesterday's HN discussion of minimalism in possessions. If you were only going to leave yourself with a few feet of closet space, what would you keep. The suit and your dress shirts, of course, and then maybe a sports coat and your sport shirts and then maybe a khaki. Now you can go anywhere. You can't say the same thing about a wardrobe consisting of t-shirts and shorts.