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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Dress</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="appendixb.html" title="Appendix B. A Portrait of J. Random Hacker"/><link rel="previous" href="appearance.html" title="General Appearance"/><link rel="next" href="reading_habits.html" title="Reading Habits"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Dress</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="appearance.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Appendix B. A Portrait of J. Random Hacker</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="reading_habits.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="dress"/>Dress</h2></div></div><div/></div><p>Casual, vaguely post-hippie; T-shirts, jeans, running shoes,
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Birk-enstocks (or bare feet). Long hair, beards, and moustaches are common.
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High incidence of tie-dye and intellectual or humorous ‘slogan’
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T-shirts. Until the mid-1990s such T-shirts were seldom computer-related, as
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that would have been too obvious — but the hacker culture has since developed
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its own icons, and J. Random Hacker now often wears a Linux penguin or BSD
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daemon or a DeCSS protest shirt.</p><p>A substantial minority prefers ‘outdoorsy’ clothing —
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hiking boots (“<span class="quote">in case a mountain should suddenly spring up in the
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machine room</span>”, as one famous parody put it), khakis, lumberjack or
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chamois shirts, and the like.</p><p>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
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subcultures such as piercings, chains, and dyed hair remain relatively
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uncommon. Hackers appear to wear black more because it goes with everything
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and hides dirt than because they want to look like goths.</p><p>Very few hackers actually fit the <i class="citetitle">National
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Lampoon</i> 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
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been more whole-earth than whole-polyester.</p><p>Hackers dress for comfort, function, and minimal maintenance hassles
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rather than for appearance (some, perhaps unfortunately, take this to extremes
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and neglect personal hygiene). They have a very low tolerance of suits and
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other ‘business’ attire; in fact, it is not uncommon for hackers
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to quit a job rather than conform to a dress code. When they are somehow
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backed into conforming to a dress code, they will find ways to subvert it, for
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example by wearing absurd novelty ties.</p><p>Female hackers almost never wear visible makeup, and many use none at
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all.</p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="appearance.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="appendixb.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="reading_habits.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">General Appearance </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Reading Habits</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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