I think you’re absolutely right, and I might have abused the word ‘cool’ (my clickbaity self lol). The rules are more conservative than they are cool.
Two things though. First, if you follow the rules, you will be cooler than nearly all around you, unless you’re in a high-end venue, in which case you’ll just look good. Second, because being cool (in the high-end-venues-clientele sense) requires strongly integrated norms/a lot of experience and changes with trends heavily, it is much harder to teach, and the quickest way to reach that point where you know breaking a rule will make you look better is to start with the rules.
The people you see queuing outside of the most exclusive clubs, or even better, that you see skipping the queue. Basically people who are famous/semi-famous, rich, or work in fashion, modeling, nightlife, art, film… For this little scene, following the newest trends is more important than dressing the way this article recommends. It’ll be more oriented towards wearing designer clothes, basically more about wealth & trend-awareness signaling.
I love that you wrote this. I think LW needs more instrumental advice like this.
In this particular instance I think you’re mixing the idea of dressing cool and dressing conservative.
These are not the same thing, although both are better than dressing badly.
I think you’re absolutely right, and I might have abused the word ‘cool’ (my clickbaity self lol). The rules are more conservative than they are cool.
Two things though. First, if you follow the rules, you will be cooler than nearly all around you, unless you’re in a high-end venue, in which case you’ll just look good. Second, because being cool (in the high-end-venues-clientele sense) requires strongly integrated norms/a lot of experience and changes with trends heavily, it is much harder to teach, and the quickest way to reach that point where you know breaking a rule will make you look better is to start with the rules.
Can you taboo high-end-venues-clientele?
The people you see queuing outside of the most exclusive clubs, or even better, that you see skipping the queue. Basically people who are famous/semi-famous, rich, or work in fashion, modeling, nightlife, art, film… For this little scene, following the newest trends is more important than dressing the way this article recommends. It’ll be more oriented towards wearing designer clothes, basically more about wealth & trend-awareness signaling.