Why don't you wear a suit?
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- Don't like the look11.1%
- Uncomfortable34.7%
- Too expensive24%
- Don't want to stand out30.2%
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no person or social context around to wear it for, too many pieces
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like i have worn suits in appropriate social contexts, e.g. weddings. is the question about wearing a suit day-to-day? would feel very strange to do that unless i had a very specific job that called for it 🤔
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Yeah, I was thinking of day to day wear. I think you're right that there just isn't the social context for it, and I'm wondering why that might be (lockdowns aside). What do you mean by too many pieces?
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all of my pre-lockdown social contexts except the monastery were pretty casual (e.g. grad school). a few people wore dress shirts in grad school but only like one professor that i can think of wore a suit. too many pieces like... a dress shirt *and* a jacket *and* a tie? boo
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oh i hate the way ties feel around my neck, that's probably relevant. even when i dressed up for parties in college i took my tie off as soon as possible
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more broadly i think i was sort of acculturated to "tech casual" even though i've never worked in tech - it feels normal to me to dress casually even for jobby stuff and it would feel weird to me to dress up
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Tech people have altered the standard of dress over the past 15 years or so quite dramatically
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