Random Fashion Thoughts (Part 3: Style farmer strikes back) - our general discussion thread

[troika]

The only school that matters is harverd

 

[rokor]

The only school that matters is harverd

rt fuq every other academic qualification.

 

[ultraExtendo]

Do school rankings matter?

Depends on the career choice/level of study, but it definitely matters if you want to work somewhere like wall street. If you went to a target school like Harvard, Yale, Wharton, Standford, etc. your life is made much easier. It's not impossible if you didn't, but it's that extra bit harder. For most other fields I think school rankings matter a lot less.

 

[cyc wid it]

It 100% matters for a lot of disciplines, not just finance, law, or medical. Think things like machine learning...

 

[Scramm]

Do school rankings matter?

In my experience (software engineer), while the industry likes to say it doesn't matter, it does matter. I'm sure it doesn't matter as much as other industries such as finance, but I do notice that in NYC, an awful lot of people working/interning at top firms seem to come from similarly ranked schools. I recall browsing through the latest class of engineering interns for my company and marveling at how they all came from top universities - the ones who didn't went to top universities for grad school.

(edit: I admit also that my company may have a bias in this regard since it's a hedge fund and thus likely to have a finance-style bias in this regard. But in my personal experience talking with people from FAANG, it seems at least in NYC a significant majority come from name brand universities.)

 

[whorishconsumer]

Oh good we're still doing this.

 

[dieworkwear]

The only school I respect is Public School

 

[FlyingMonkey]

@Baron

California in the 1970s:

England in the 1970s:

(Selected from the first page of images that come up with a seach...)

 

[mmmargeologist]

?

 

[mmmargeologist]

Reason i ask is wife and i are considering the burbs after having the kid. Better schools out there.

 

[mmmargeologist]

(Ive had sex)

 

[rokor]

Nothing is really appealing other than short skirts which today are a given. Maybe it's just me.

 

[Baron]

Late 70's socal beach culture was a pretty specific look that probably doesn't have that much to do with the 70's style we were talking about earlier in the thread. Van's, Op shorts, Hang Ten, huaraches, wallabees, mexican panchos (drug rugs), mexican cowhican style cardigans, mexican blankets covering the torn upholstery of your old car. More Dogtown and Z Boys.

 

[RSS]

The only school I respect is Public School

I'm thinking back to my early years growing up in the Deep South. School integration was at hand and I was put in public school to experience it. I still remember the first day with blacks on once side and whites on the other. It was announced that school would not start until something changed. I recall saying "To hell with this" and proceeded to get up and walk to he other side. I sat down and black girl reached over and ran her fingers over my arm. I looked askance and she announced "I just wanted to see if the white rubbed off". I doubled over laughing.

That young girl -- we must have been about 13 -- is today a doctor and we are still friends.

 

[cb200]

Late 70's socal beach culture was a pretty specific look that probably doesn't have that much to do with the 70's style we were talking about earlier in the thread.

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He'd written a bit about brands and business in the, he'd probably hate the term, "action sports" world. Good perspective from someone who dealt with the industry and unforutnaly, I think, there's only a small bit of that that made it out into the public.

With the dominance of Streetwear one could certainly draw a line back to the 70's - 80's beach and skate brands. That was a big influence outside or possibly in parallel to more traditional mens wear. Before Patagonia was telling people not to buy their jacket Gotcha was telling people they shouldn't even surf.