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Friday, March 23. 2018

Billionaire hipsters


VDH on Elite Camouflage: 



Walk a Manhattan sidewalk, and try to guess who has a credit line of $10 million and who has one of zero. Take a transcontinental business class flight—who paid $5,000 for it and who saved up his frequent flyer miles for a year to travel in style? The guy in the jogging outfit and the girl in a business suit have no real clue of where the other falls in the social hierarchy...


It is true for sure. However, I think his observation applies more to guys than to gals. Most guys prefer to dress in as relaxed a manner as they can except when they need to "dress for success" for meetings. Billionaires do not need to dress for meetings.
Posted by The News Junkie in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 17:29 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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You can't tell on sight, but you can usually guess shrewdly in a few minutes.

It's not necessarily new. Most American towns years ago had a guy who had made a pile of money but still drove a beat-up pickup and dressed accordingly. Usually he had made his money in construction or as a specialty tradesman, but there were others who just liked doing their own handy work on weekends, were gentleman farmers, or liked hunting, hiking, or fishing more than fashion.

I think that was less true of women, and still is. But maybe that's just New England.
#1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2018-03-23 19:32 (Reply)
On a related bit of entertainment:

Quiz: Physicist or hobo?

http://www.somody.ca/quiz.html

They give your score, but not the answers.
#2 jay on 2018-03-24 08:02 (Reply)
I must be special - it gave me the answers. 8/10 by the way.
#2.1 Aggie on 2018-03-24 09:56 (Reply)
"Most guys prefer to dress in as relaxed a manner as they can..."

Yeah, but the guy that shows up to a funeral, wedding, or quincineara in cargo shorts or an NBA jersey is just a bum.
#3 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2018-03-24 08:04 (Reply)
Unless it is a conference call even a billionaire needs to wear pants to a meeting. Well, most meetings.
#4 Hamlet's Fool on 2018-03-24 08:45 (Reply)
Only 7/10, but hey, still better than the random 50/50!
#5 Texan99 on 2018-03-24 11:48 (Reply)
Whether billionaires, buffoons or just some guy from down the street, those travelers who favor shorts, sweats or pajamas (most extremely casual attire looks more and more like bedroom wear) are just slobs.
#6 tired dog on 2018-03-25 10:55 (Reply)

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