Tom Frank: Perpetual Revolution (Le Monde Diplomatique,May 2001) (from nettime)

[Jim Westrich]

Around 30% of men (if a public health article about 10 years ago was 
accurate) wear ties that restrict blood flow to their brains, so casual 
dress is also about efficiency.

Peace,

Jim

Carl Recmick:
>How long can one sustain a *tradition* of casual dress in the workplace 
>without the practice being recognized as simply another phony gesture of 
>subversiveness -- indeed, as a restrictive convention?

"Your very prosperity hurts you; Your Adversary lays the Chains of Death 
upon you. . . . Damn'd unto torments; must undergo a strange Punishment, 
and a long one which is Reserved in a Future State, for the workers of 
iniquity"

         --Cotton Mather