[maldusiecle]

A photo caption from the article: "Silicon Valley vs Mad Men — who would you rather be?"

But Mad Men is a show largely about its characters' bad behavior--their casual bigotry, crass money-grubbing, etc. If you're wearing a suit because you want to be Don Draper, you're not just a poor interpreter of television; you're probably a pretty poor excuse for a person.

I don't have anything against suits, per se. I'd point out that there are a lot of points on the spectrum between full-casual and a suit, though. I tend to wear business casual; comfortable, flattering, not too expensive. But it feels pretty grotesque to complain that you're being discriminated against for choosing to wear expensive, tailored clothing, especially when there are people really suffering discrimination because of their gender or the color of their skin.

[klipt]

Maybe the grim lesson is that a crass bigot in a suit gets better treatment than a decent person in casual.