betterthanwell comments on A Rational Approach to Fashion - Less Wrong

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Comment author: betterthanwell 11 October 2011 05:30:56AM 0 points [-]

Dressing like a mathematician will not make you one. Dressing like a clown will make you a clown.

Fashion will not affect your skill, outside of making you more (or less) comfortable, which in turn could affect performance. A socially calibrated sense of fashion could help you get noticed and gain reputation among peers in any community.