The Year of Dressing Formally (2008)
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The Year of Dressing Formally (2008)
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#3I just wish more American businessmen would wear decent shoes, such as bluchers or oxfords by Alden or Allen Edmonds, so I don't have to see anymore rubber soled, bicycle toed loafers at the airport: http://instagram.com/p/ZbdZfMsM4G/
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This professor works at a private college in Michigan called Hope College, from what I can tell he is not subsisting on taxpayer money.
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That professor is from Hope College, a private Christian college, so he's subsisting on taxpayer money only insofar as most other nonprofit employees are.
I thought the commentary was at least mildly interesting. When I was in the Valley I experienced a strong anti-suit attitude and many I met in the startup industry would vehemently protest any suggestion that dressing formally could be a good idea. It seems like common sense to me but clothing and appearance are just communication tools the same way body language, tone of voice, and diction are.
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I'm not sure why you think that humanities professors at small liberal arts colleges subsist on tax-payer money. Even if they did, that certainly shouldn't prevent them from writing whimsical, entertaining and interesting pieces like this one – especially when they are English professors.
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#7I just wish more American businessmen would wear decent shoes, such as bluchers or oxfords by Alden or Allen Edmonds, so I don't have to see anymore rubber soled, bicycle toed loafers at the airport: http://instagram.com/p/ZbdZfMsM4G/
People wear all kinds of silly fashions here in Italy, which is pretty much the fashion capital of the world. Some of them may be well made, name-brand silly fashions, but they certainly look odd 5 years out from when they were 'in'.
I'm with Zuckerberg, and Jobs with his 'uniform' on this one: most of that junk is a complete waste of your time. The only winning move is not to play. You don't have to wear just sweatshirts and jeans, but pick stuff you like and get on with life and stop worrying about it.
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#8I just wish more American businessmen would wear decent shoes, such as bluchers or oxfords by Alden or Allen Edmonds, so I don't have to see anymore rubber soled, bicycle toed loafers at the airport: http://instagram.com/p/ZbdZfMsM4G/
Living in SF rendered my leather-soled AEs pretty much useless. Walking up Nob Hill wearing leather soles is pretty much a treadmill. On the casual end of things, backless sandals are equally iffy (despite the SF Birkenstock stereotype).
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#10I wish I can dress nicely in suits, but I don't do it for two reasons. No one dresses in suits in technology sector. Not even CEO. Only team that dress up in our company is legal, and even they are on the more informal side compared to what real formal is.
Good suits that look good are expensive. I don't want to wear daddy tier suits, but good looking suits I've seen run well over $500.