Comments on: Better Dressed

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:45:57 +0000

Is VC funding available? Are you crapping me, Granade?! Have you seen valuations out on the Innertubes lately!?

[Read: I'm coming over. We'll have a .com and a Web 2.0-buzzworded-to-the-max built on Rails over dinner.]

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:19:34 +0000

I always assumed that ::CueCats were for cataloging books. Though this isn’t a bad second use for them, either.

By: Joe Z

Joe Z — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:58:21 +0000

I say this tongue in cheek, but could this be a use (at last) for the ::CueCat? Bar-code the clothing, and scan the tags to determine appropriateness and “freshness”?

I do think seasonal coding separate of a general “rethink after 2008″ type of labeling works. I just arranged for two grocery-bags worth of shirts to go to charity. They’ll probably end up looking good on some thrift-diving hipster 3 years from now.

By: Kat

Kat — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:07:48 +0000

Since moving into the full-fledged engineer status (ie, graduated from college) I have slowly graduated my clothing into something nicer. Instead of jeans, I have nice slacks and skirts now and I try to wear nice sweaters and button ups now. But, then again, I’m always glad to get a chance to wear my blue jeans. 3rd shift is an excellent chance to wear jeans at work.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:17:14 +0000

You could always just stick with animals, but tie them back to the O’reily books

As an engineer that wears khakis and jeans for the very reason you mentioned above… they’re easy to match, I whole-heartedly support this idea!

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:20:08 +0000

duchess, I was thinking of things going out of fashion, but we could do seasons as well.

I had someone point out this as a follow-up: Fabric for Bachelors.

By: Joyeuse

Joyeuse — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:04:26 +0000

Excellent idea! So far we’ve managed “black goes with everything, including more black,” but that’s about it.

By: duchess

duchess — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:39:43 +0000

Maybe the expiration date should refer to the season? So if it expires June, then you shouldn’t be wearing it in November? Style expirations seem a little out of place, since the goal is to make engineers well-dressed, NOT stylish (and the two necessarilty aren’t the same thing!), right?

By: Limax

Limax — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:58:48 +0000

Heh… Since I’ve come to work here, I’ve ‘upgraded’ from ratty T-shirts to polo shirts or sweaters, depending on the weather. But until they make me a manager (which is hopefully never), I will not give up my blue jeans!