PhilGoetz comments on Why Real Men Wear Pink - Less Wrong

51 Post author: Yvain 06 August 2009 07:39AM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 06 August 2009 07:38:41PM *  0 points [-]

Pink polo shirts were in fashion in the 1980s. I was there.

But did it have the same class transition?

It's also interesting that the color switched garments. The "lager louts" aren't going to look like businessmen if they wear polo shirts. Are they trying to? if not, why the same color?

Comment author: PhilGoetz 06 August 2009 10:42:15PM 1 point [-]

Didn't start with businessmen, unless you mean businessmen visiting Martha's Vinyard in the off-season. I don't know if lager louts, wide boys, chavs, spides, neds, and scally lads ever wore them. I hope none of those things are ethnic slurs.

Comment author: HumanFlesh 07 August 2009 07:49:22PM 1 point [-]

They're not ethnic slurs.

Comment author: therufs 18 November 2012 09:22:15PM 0 points [-]

I'm pretty sure some of them are class slurs, if you want to get down to nitty gritty.