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Interesting viewpoint. Up until the keyword association, you were in a moderately defensible position. But deceit, materialism and shallow -- associating th
by Jedd 12y ago
Interesting viewpoint.
Up until the keyword association, you were in a moderately defensible position. But deceit, materialism and shallow -- associating those sensations with what some people wear is some regrettable kind of -ism. How do you feel, in a group of engineers, if someone choose to not wear Dr Martens (or something comparably expensive)? If a collared shirt is worn, something casual and comfortable say, have they also abandoned everything you think they should hold dear about being an engineer?
- teacup50 12y agoSo we should only accept the intended signaling of people's clothing choices, and never think any deeper about why they made signaling clothing choices? There's a wide range of choices between wearing clothes that are well suited to what you'll physically be doing in them, and wearing clothes suited to signaling something about yourself, and where clothing falls in that range does say something about the wearer.
- christianbryant 12y agoI think we should all take a second look at what clothes "mean". I maintain my distaste for expensive and overly formal clothing, since it flies in the face of poverty and those who have little in America. But I concede that it helps nobody to attack a person or front-load judgement of them based solely on their appearance...
- christianbryant 12y agoThe associations may be regrettable, but they are mine and how they got there, and how they are to be overturned, are up for debate. I don't think them wrong or right. I do judge people by their work, especially me, and ultimately would never let just the shell tell a person's story :-)