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0 pointslutusp12y ago0 comments

> It's not clear what desirable function suits serve.

It marks you as a team player, sort of like a sports uniform. I say it that way intentionally to show how a suit can be interpreted in both positive and negative ways.

Wearing a suit means you belong to the group that wears suits. Belonging can be overrated, but it seems many want to belong to the suit-wearing, six-figure-income clique.

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pasbesoin12y ago

AKA "signalling". And it can and does go beyond "a suit" to include "the right suit / tailoring / etc".

Wearing "the wrong suit" can be about as bad as wearing no suit, from this perspective.

6d0debc07112y ago

Ah, good point. I didn't think of that :)

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