Fashion 2025

[STEVIE]

It's Fashion not Holy Writ, cast in stone and damnation to all who ignore!
Ah well, seems like I'm going to Hell because frankly my dears, I really cannot give a damn.
That also works two ways, what you choose to wear and what floats my particular boat, to each their own.
Even to the extent that someone is stupid enough to have loose dangly bits around rotating catchy bits.
Learn the hard way or forever be removed from the gene pool.
Seriously there has been fashion of a kind through all human history, some practical, some not so.
One common thread though, follow it or not, your freedom, your choice.
Steve.

[crfriend]

On neck-ties... Back when I was doing computer field service in the 1980s, we were expected to wear ties when we were at customer sites and in the office when The Brass was around. So it just became normal to wear them all the time. However, frequently we'd have them tucked into our shirt-fronts when on-site simply to keep them out of rotating machinery, some of which could be pretty ferocious -- mostly plotters and disk drives. Note that this was when a disk drive was typically the size of a washing-machine, held about 200 - 300 megabytes of data, with the pack weighing about 20 pounds and spinning at 3600 RPM with voice-coil positioners that could perform a full-stroke seek in about 10 mS. Quite dangerous if you got anything caught in them.

Things started dumbing down in the 90s, when "business casual" (an oxymoron) came into style and much of the visual delight of the urban environment evaporated. I wore a tie at the time simply as a way of raising my middle finger at the new trend.

We lost a lot with the arrival of casual grunge -- a whole lot. I'm glad I was around before that rot set in, never-mind the modern scourge of "athleisure" I'd like to see a return of some of the formality.

[Mouse]

The only two places I have worn ties during my life have been the church I grew up in and the school I attended. As an adult, I have worn the odd tie as required, but never as a standard weekly thing. Being a Designer/Programmer, I have always felt correct in a T-Shirt and black jeans, until the last few years when I saw the light and replaced the jeans with skirts.

[Kirbstone]

Having served my time, almost 60 years as a Dental 'Face Worker', protective clothing (PPE) was the norm between 9 and 5 or 6 daily. Attending Dental meetings, formal was normal, i.e. jacket and tie. Towards the latter years of my active involvement however, lots of younger colleagues attended these meetings dressed casually and jackets and ties were in the retreat, mostly worn by older colleagues like myself.

Having first taken Medical orders before gravitating to Dentistry, daily ward rounds attire was a long white coat revealing a neat shirt, collar and tie. No medic went about without a tie unless they were wearing surgical scrubs.

Tom

[geron]

...with voice-coil positioners that could perform a full-stroke seek in about 10 mS....

Millisiemens? Capital S is the unit of electrical conductance (otherwise known as the mho to oldies such as myself).

[crfriend]

Millisiemens?

Seconds. In an emergency-retract, those things can take fingers off if you're working on the device (like when aligning the heads).

[geron]

Millisiemens?

Seconds. In an emergency-retract, those things can take fingers off if you're working on the device (like when aligning the heads).

Quite so, and they sound scary. I'm afraid I was just (pedantically) drawing the distinction between mS and ms. And then there's Ms, which is something else again