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Clothing is boring. It's something you have to do, as opposed to what you want to be doing. Unless it's a T-shirt with some image that relates to your personality. I'll pay for a service where I can dump my clothes and they'll produce identical new and fitted items.
FWIW, wearing a suit (in the modern "business suit" sense of term) isn't technically "formal" dress. Heck, it isn't even semi-formal. Semi-formal would be a tuxedo (for men), and formal wear would be "morning dress" or "white tie".[1] "Business suits" fall into the category of "lounge suit" which is considered informal dress.[2] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_wear [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lounge_su…
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Mimicry has its place for those who haven't succeeded globally by the age you're supposed to start wearing formal, or at least "decent" clothes, like Zuckerberg and Jobs did.
by the age you're supposed to start "supposed to"? According to why? And what gives this amorphous "they" any standing to dictate such a thing? Fuck that... I like to dandy it up and rock the "two and a half piece" suit look sometimes (that is, waistcoat and - in my case - a cravat, but no outer jacket), but I do it because I like it, not because somebody says it's what you're supposed to do. And the rest of the time…
In the neighbourhood I'm known as "the bathrobe guy with funny facial hair", so I get you. I don't want attract people around me who will judge a book by its covers, but majority people I interacted with are living in that cave. It is pretty oblivious to walk around and think that your appearance doesn't matter to substantial number of people you do business and socialize with.
If you want to leave appearance of laid-back honest doer, that's fine. Not all people do.
I 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/
I'm probably overreacting, but your post really reads like "you should wear less comfortable/more expensive footwear because I don't like looking at what you currently own", and that sort of thing kinda pisses me off.
This does, however, remind me of one of my favorite scenes from the wire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJn-9TP7uUM
I dress the same every day. Black t-shirt with no logo, jeans, and sneakers. If its cold, I put on my black hoodie. That's all you will see. Nice ocassions? My wife takes care of that. Otherwise, it's my uniform. Clothing costs have gone down, I save time and money by not having to pick what to wear of having to wash things in differen loads. But, I mostly do it because I'm lazy.
> I mostly do it because I'm lazy. You do realize that's exactly the impression your habit conveys, right?
Clothing is boring. It's something you have to do, as opposed to what you want to be doing. Unless it's a T-shirt with some image that relates to your personality. I'll pay for a service where I can dump my clothes and they'll produce identical new and fitted items.
You may feel that clothing is boring and something you can look past, but you are in a tiny minority. By failing to invest a bit in your appearance you are foolishly forgoing substantial advantages in life.
In my life I bang on keys all the day long, and keys don't care what I wear. What could change?
Clothing is boring. It's something you have to do, as opposed to what you want to be doing. Unless it's a T-shirt with some image that relates to your personality. I'll pay for a service where I can dump my clothes and they'll produce identical new and fitted items.
Or you know, it's an art and a hobby that people other than you enjoy.
I dress the same every day. Black t-shirt with no logo, jeans, and sneakers. If its cold, I put on my black hoodie. That's all you will see. Nice ocassions? My wife takes care of that. Otherwise, it's my uniform. Clothing costs have gone down, I save time and money by not having to pick what to wear of having to wash things in differen loads. But, I mostly do it because I'm lazy.
> I mostly do it because I'm lazy. You do realize that's exactly the impression your habit conveys, right?
It's also a sort of camouflage. I blend in very easily. I like that.