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Dress
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Casual, vaguely post-hippie; T-shirts, jeans, running shoes, Birk-enstocks
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(or bare feet). Long hair, beards, and moustaches are common. High incidence
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of tie-dye and intellectual or humorous slogan T-shirts. Until the mid-1990s
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such T-shirts were seldom computer-related, as that would have been too
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obvious but the hacker culture has since developed its own icons, and J.
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Random Hacker now often wears a Linux penguin or BSD daemon or a DeCSS
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protest shirt. A substantial minority prefers outdoorsy clothing hiking
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boots ( in case a mountain should suddenly spring up in the machine room ,
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as one famous parody put it), khakis, lumberjack or chamois shirts, and the
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like. After about 1995 hacker dress styles assimilated some influence from
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punk, gothic, and rave subcultures. This was relatively mild and has
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manifested mostly as a tendency to wear a lot of black, especially when
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dressed up to the limit of formality. Other markers of those subcultures
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such as piercings, chains, and dyed hair remain relatively uncommon. Hackers
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appear to wear black more because it goes with everything and hides dirt
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than because they want to look like goths. Very few hackers actually fit the
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National Lampoon Nerd stereotype, though it lingers on at MIT and may have
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been more common before 1975. At least since the late Seventies backpacks
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have been more common than briefcases, and the hacker look has been more
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whole-earth than whole-polyester. Hackers dress for comfort, function, and
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minimal maintenance hassles rather than for appearance (some, perhaps
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unfortunately, take this to extremes and neglect personal hygiene). They
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have a very low tolerance of suits and other business attire; in fact, it is
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not uncommon for hackers to quit a job rather than conform to a dress code.
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When they are somehow backed into conforming to a dress code, they will find
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ways to subvert it, for example by wearing absurd novelty ties. Female
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hackers almost never wear visible makeup, and many use none at all.
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