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#1 2008-05-19 20:37:39
- yachtie
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Groupthink at SF?
More a symptom at AAAC, is there an outbreak of groupthink at SF? Seems like if you're not a SBNL grey suited office drone you're anathema. Bummer- would'a thought that there was more latitude for individualism there.
#2 2008-05-19 20:43:38
- iammatt
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
My opinion...
Yes, there is groupthink, but I don't think that it has anything to do with what you are talking about. Look at the current love for knit ties, or the obsession with multiple pattern matching. I think that is group think. What you are referring to is, in my mind, just good common sense 
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#4 2008-05-19 20:52:04
- Marc Grayson
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
Look no further than the Savile Row thread.
"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not." Oscar Wilde
#5 2008-05-19 20:53:38
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
I don't know, Yachtie. I am not much for change myself. I just plan to keep on doing what I am doing. I have noticed that I have not been wearing knit ties for the past few months, but that is probably just seasonal.
Hell, if you can start a fad towards 6 on 3 DBs, I'll buy one myself. 
As to the SR thread, I have never been tempted to go that route, and some of the stuff is questionable to my eyes, but it doesn't strike me as groupthink. Maybe I don't know what the term means.
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#6 2008-05-19 21:13:16
- yachtie
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
Point being if i like 6x3's why the 'uck should anyone care. I'm not asking anyone else to wear one. I'm rather surprised RSS didn't get his ass handed to him for posting that bias-striped number. 
Truth be told, 6x3's really aren't that outre'.
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#7 2008-05-19 21:21:02
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not." Oscar Wilde
#10 2008-05-19 21:42:17
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
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#11 2008-05-19 23:18:13
- Marc Grayson
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not." Oscar Wilde
#12 2008-05-20 06:59:19
- Tony Ventresca
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
Some of you actually wear 6X3 jackets? The ones with two rows of 3 buttons, and all three on the one side button? That has not been fashionable since the 1960s or perhaps early 1970s. They are NOT timeless classics.
#18 2008-05-20 09:04:33
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
^ Okay it looks good (one dropped shoulder?) but it's still a non-current fashion item. I mean anyone from the 1960s would have wet their pants on seeing that and would have stolen it off your back...but today? Can you see Barbera or someone wearing it? I can't. It has a woman's waist too.
Forgive the negativity, but I see it as a bridge too far.
#22 2008-05-20 10:38:15
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
Are you supposed to wear all three rows of buttons done up on that 6x3?
#24 2008-05-20 10:52:32
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
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#25 2008-05-20 10:56:07
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Re: Groupthink at SF?
I really like the look of the button placement on that 6x3...is that arrangement, with the buttons stacked vertically in straight lines, standard with a 6x3?
The DBs I see usually have the top two buttons spaced further out from the lower ones, which always makes for an unfortunate association with nipples for me.
That straight-up-and-down placement does look very sharp and 60s to me. I'd love to find a trim blue blazer like that.