Re:What a physicist sees when she looks at a fancy gown
by skybrian on Sunday August 27, 2017 @04:21PM
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Whether fashion is covered too much or too little seems pretty subjective; it's going to depend on what you read, etc. The physics aspect doesn't get talked about much and you don't see much on Hacker News normally, so I wouldn't say it's over-covered here?
(On the other hand, we do see an awful lot of criticism of UI design and that includes complaints about typography :-)
As a thought-experiment, replace fashion by typography. Imagine you wake up, and you have to think about typography, then you get to work, people talk about typography, you come home and turn on the TV, people talk about typography, then at some point, it becomes too much. Personally, I'll probably still appreciate the craft, but I consider it a "solved" problem for myself, something that others deal with, and I direct my attention elsewhere.
As for the communication aspect of clothing, that's actually something I have resentment against. You change clothes only once or perhaps twice a day, so the communication is extremely low-bandwidth to start with. And an even bigger problem: it reduces the person to one thing. A person wearing a pilot suit becomes a pilot (only), a person wearing a labcoat becomes a doctor (only). But obviously people are more than their profession.
And clothing can also be a way to intimidate or to mask intentions (think of the used car salesman wearing a suit, not because he likes it, but because he wants to sell that car).