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Charles, in case you haven't noticed, a very large percentage of software engineers are of Indian or Arab ethnicity and maybe they don't stand out in your fashion examinations.

Enough of your disturbing and incendiary racist jealousy. We get it!
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It's been a while since I've worked in software, but not that long. The numbers you mentioned seem quite plausible, although I have worked in companies with a lot more women. African Americans are rare in my experience, but Seattle is a very white town. Even so, I would guess software engineers are close to average for the city when it comes to Asian and mixed race, but well below when it comes to African Americans and Latinos (as those figures suggest).

As far as dress is concerned, I would be very surprised if young tech guys are dressing well. It certainly wasn't the case at any company I've ever worked at. In fact it was the opposite. Traditional white collar work requires a tie (and IBM did until recently) but modern software companies took pride in the fact that they were casual. In other words, guys would dress like slobs "because they can".

It is possible that the influx of new software engineers has lead to a lot of better dressers. Maybe there are a lot of people coming in from other parts of the country (where they dress with more flair). Or maybe the increasing numbers of men have lead many to try to stand out (like a peacock).
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This greatly depends on what campus you're referring to. At mine, nerdy T-shirts and cargo shorts (or jeans, in colder weather) are pretty common, especially for us white males. Across the street, that's probably not the case.
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Maybe? Coders usually aren't well dressed, usually wear old t-shirts. But there are non coders that have more public facing jobs that tend to put in more effort.

But i still think the non-tech people on the hill are usually better dressed.

Then again this all depends on taste.

Maybe you should approach thes diamonds in the ruff and ask them their occupation. New column, Street fashion with Charles! I'd so read that (honestly, not being sarcastic)!
5
Y'all bakers toasting in a roll bread.
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Or, maybe, those same white, male, well dressed people, who already were there at their banks and other white collar jobs, stopped driving their fancy cars to work, and now take the LINK.
7
most tech bros i see have jeans and a t-shirt, not really at height of fashion
8
didn't know cargo shorts, running shoes and a bazinga t-shirt were fashionable.
9
Looking down your nose at people that like to groom themselves and dress well? Don't you have anything else, more important, to write about?
10
Tech people tend to dress casually; white collar non-tech people generally don't dress to stand out (not cheap, but not expensive either). My experience has been who put those most effort into noticeable clothes bare those least able to afford it (waiters, bartenders, retail clerks, etc).
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I'm never getting those three minutes back. Best case scenario, there was a semi-compelling article combining class, transportation and fashion (a la Mudede). Worst case scenario are some pics of Seattle heads sporting their fashion of choice.
This piece had neither. Mudede, you owe me some spackle, a spackle knife, a wall patch and a new tablet. For serious.
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@5: Oh you!
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Good style doesn't have anything to do with money, but I guess it's not inflammatory enough to write about how people are moving here that sort of care about their appearance, like they do in other cities around the world.
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There is hardly an absence of non-white and/or non-male sharp dressers on Link, so I find this post a bit baffling.

Maybe they all look the same to Charles?
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I'm going to hazard a guess that Charles doesn't actually know any white male techies and has never been in a tech work environment. I love my tech friends, but 99% of them firmly rank below the 50th percentile when it comes to fashion.

The best dressed? Those who work in the arts, bartenders, and the occasion salesperson. Most of whom, as another commenter noted, can ill afford it.
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What an idiotic and presumptuous write up. Most tech workers with money drive, they don't take the light rail, that's for damn sure. I think the assertion that most tech workers are white and male has more to do with what catches the passing attention of the author since the readily available demographic data speaks to the contrary. Jesus, go to one Amazon or Expedia or Microsoft hosted event. It's a veritable benneton ad of well paid tech geeks who struggle with dressing themselves well into adulthood.

Maybe it's just that white dudes need to compare themselves to other white dudes and get so blinded by the whiteness they can't see anything else?

Btw, Seattle is still a pretty shabby chic town for all the money we've got here. The "for some reason its acceptable to wear seahawks merch year round and for any occasion" culture is the only fashion identity this town has.
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Charles, I love you and your writing, but I don't get it. Yes Amazon, tech, speculation is ruining this city, but what does this have to do with anything? Talk to these people and then judge and shit on them. That I can get behind. Not vague value judgments from afar. Give me some stats and quotes to rally behind to hate on these fuckers.
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Wait, is this article insinuating that it's a problem that there are yuppies in Seattle, seriously? Oh, no, they happen to be western Eurasian in ancestry, call the police. Spin it into a BLM article.
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@antman, racists like Charles do not have to talk to someone to understand them. He just has to look at them and know what sinister motives are in their evil, black hearts.
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@15 i want to agree with you but then i saw on your profile that you chose will or fnarf and i'm not sure what to think

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