What was I thinking? It's way too early in the morning. It must be that the Master class has lost some of its bearings. Why does the Yale Club have to tell people what to wear? They should know, shouldn't they?
[WS:] You got it all wrong, Doug. It is not about discipline, master class or kindred populist rubbish. It is all about a sense of belonging and identity politics - no different than, say, the hip hop crowd, the hippies, New York intellectuals, or the orthodox Jews. Nobody forces them to wear baggy pants, Birkenstock sandals, black turtlenecks, or yarmulke - they do it because the garb is an integral part of their separate collective identity. Without the garb, they as a group would be indistinguishable from the rest of the humanity.
Wojtek