The Mad Men ripple effect

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/fashion/17CODES.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

 

[Tomasso]

Decent piece but this little tidbit is total BS:

The result is a kind of rift emerging between the generation of men in their 20s and 30s and those in their late 40s and 50s for whom a suit was not merely square but cubed, and caring about how one looked was effeminate.

 

[Doctor Strange]

This article has already been discussed pretty extensively - see this thread:

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=46243

 

[Atinkerer]

Out dressing your hard-hat coworkers in the locker room

There was a line from Raiders Of The lost Ark that comes to mind. "You Americans, you always over dress for the wrong occasion".