As someone who masks as this man for work sometimes you definitely should be. I often quite literally feel like a sheep in wolfs clothing around these kinds of dudes. I say this as today I literally dropped the collared shirt and put on a tie dye to go to a queer polyamory group in my area. Those dudes are absolutely not to be trusted and if capitalism didn't force me to pretend to like them I absolutely would smash their faces in

If a man under 25 wears a collar when he isn't forced to, kill him with hammers

People who overdress (highly situation dependent) are trying to differentiate themselves from the lower socioeconomic class. You are right to be afraid.

fuck suits never ever trust a suit

I interned at a bank and met the guys aspiring to be men in suits. This is a good call.

I wear sweatpants and band t shirts nearly every day of my life

One thing I'm very proud of is that I project a kind of Slovenliness Field around myself wherever I go that lowers standards and makes people care less about their job. I destroy workplace discipline. It even affects electronics.

that's your survival instinct kicking in

Counterpoint

the immediate need to suppress the fight-or-flight response

Like they're wearing a mask and are hiding something.

I mean, that's the point isn't it?

I'm with you for reasons I'm struggling to articulate

If they have a briefcase, I just assume it's full of guts from their victims

Suits can be pretty cool but there are different types of suits and each end of the Suit Vibes Scale

Clean blue/nacy pressed suit: evil, rancid vibes

Suit jacket and shirt with jeans: stop that, ew

Plain black suit: pretty cool

Saul Goodman ass suits with ten different colours: beautiful

theyre telling me that theyre willing to cow uncomfortably to the demiurge in a way that i'm not.

even the new corpo-style of polos and outdoor vests kinda gives me the creeps

anyone that wants to signal class like that, even if they are just trying to fit in at work, just comes off as sus to me

unless there's an explicit dress code that is required, it just seems to me to be very similar to boot-licking

utilitarian uniforms and such are fine since they are signaling working class vibes, but these PMC uniforms are dreadful

I would feel different about someone wearing an old-timey suit , though a greater proportion of people wore suits then

Then again that person might be a g-g-g-ghost and scare me a different way

Me too but it’s because these men are the most egocentric and disgusting when I see them in public spaces. In the train they always take 1,5 seat pushing against me and I’ve seen 2 of them jacking off in the train at different times.

I used to think suits are attractive but the men underneath them are really really gross.

100% agree. I work at a university, and a white man in formal clothes sets off my fight or flight response. No one wearing a suit in my building is up to anything good. Honestly no one on the whole campus wearing a suit is up to anything good, but especially in research buildings. Scientists wear jeans and t shirts 95% of the time, you stand out like a sore thumb and set off everyone’s alarms.

God forbid I see a whole gaggle of young white men in khakis and sports coats. There’s a significant chance those men are on their way to do a hate crime.

Only tangentially related, if there was one piece of clothing I could remove from existence, it would be the polo shirt. There is no valid use for a polo shirt. They’re incredibly ugly while also making you look like a corporate dickwad. At least actual formal clothes do look nice even though they worry me.

same

You're correct and I agree with you.

I dress slightly more neat than the average leftist. I have no tats and no facial hair. I'm not dressed formally, but i airways have long trousers/jeans and they're never ripped. Other leftists take a little longer to warm up to me because I could be a fed.

They're certainly immediately one to be wary of.

Sadly I have dressed like this on rare occasion, but only if I intend to meet rich fucks and convince them to do something for me. (i.e. I'm wearing a mask and am hiding something)

Edit: I almost forgot the most important fact. Threads like these are counter-revolutionary. The revolution simply will not occur as long as would-be comrades in the working class are easily divided by such matters as…

(checks notes)

…apparel.

I don’t often wear suits, mostly because of the strong associations and prejudice well-represented in this thread, but here’s my brief defense of the old-fashioned clothing style.

Suits are mega comfy, like pajamas. They’re versatile, can be modified to fit a variety of tasks and occasions. You get nice compliments from strangers when you wear them. They can be nondescript or flamboyant easily. They don’t signify social or economic status (beyond employment, perhaps, since it was once traditional professional attire) and most who wear them regularly are working class, not wealthy. You can thrift one for 20 bucks.

Styles of clothing are neither evil nor good, and say little about the character of a person wearing them outside television and theater.

I just think they're neat!

I don't trust them either

Used to have the same thing, but honestly I don’t mind suits what’s more annoying about them is the amount of work you need to take care of them, like you have to iron the shirts etc if they don’t fit well you can also end up looking pretty goofy in them. A good suit can also last for a long time. I have no idea why they have to be the default uniform of the special boy capitalist class ( oh yeah I do the Labor reason I mentioned earlier hahaha)

I also just wanted to add that I almost never wear a suit, but I don’t really mind the concept.

My job requires me to dress corporate and I hate it lmao. I'm on the IT team, they stick us in the part of the building where customers never, ever go.