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From: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Clothing as self-expression
Message-ID: <472@timeinc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 22:48:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: timeinc.472
Posted: Mon Aug 26 22:48:02 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Aug-85 20:15:15 EDT
References: <1050@mtgzz.UUCP> <1500@peora.UUCP> <5625@tektronix.UUCP> <221@unc.unc.UUCP>
Reply-To: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Organization: Time Inc. (Edit Tech), New York
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Summary: 

In article <221@unc.unc.UUCP> fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) writes:
>
>And some of us computer types dress badly because we
>just don't realize what our clothes say to other people.
>This is known as "absent-mindedness".
>

Hmmm.  Frank, although this might be the case with some, it's not for
me.  My clothing is always clean, fresh undies each day, and my jeans
rarely have holes in them.  It has as much to do with an acute sense
of smell as in the idea that I'm just not absent-mided. I think. :-)

Yet, some might consider me to dress badly because I don't follow their
ideas about how to dress "well".  So when I go into a corporate
environment, these same yuppies that only wear Brooks Brothers and
Barclays can't seem to figure out why this scruffy, jean and sneaker
clad person earns so much more than they do.

Yet they hire me for my *knowledge*, not for how I dress.

So I figure that the field we're in allows us to get away with dressing
in a fashion that normally would not be accepted in the corporate world.

It doesn't seem to work in the singles bars, or out in Yupland, where
a pair of topsiders, and Izod shirt, still seem to be the uniform. But
it does seem to work in a world where you are judged on what you know and
what you can do, rather than how much time you spend reading
Gentlemen's Quarterly, M, or the other "dress for success" rags.



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