You say that good fashion expresses something about the personality. With all the examples you gave I’m not sure what they express.
The brands you listed also seem to signal what you personally want to express. It’s less clear to me why they would be what the average rationalist wants to express.
The item that I currently wear that expresses the most about me is my Oura ring followed by barefoot shoes.
>You were sorta on the right track with this when you started wearing all of those t-shirts with xkcd comics on the back, except the signal value is about as worthless as a college degree now, because everyone else wears them too.
This seems a bit strange to me. On the one hand most of the value of pretty expensive college degrees is in the signaling and on the other hand unless the thing you want to signal is that you are different from everyone else other people wearing something doesn’t dimish the signal. If people with one characteristics all wear the same thing it becomes a stronger signal for that characteristics.
You say that good fashion expresses something about the personality. With all the examples you gave I’m not sure what they express.
The brands you listed also seem to signal what you personally want to express. It’s less clear to me why they would be what the average rationalist wants to express.
The item that I currently wear that expresses the most about me is my Oura ring followed by barefoot shoes.
>You were sorta on the right track with this when you started wearing all of those t-shirts with xkcd comics on the back, except the signal value is about as worthless as a college degree now, because everyone else wears them too.
This seems a bit strange to me. On the one hand most of the value of pretty expensive college degrees is in the signaling and on the other hand unless the thing you want to signal is that you are different from everyone else other people wearing something doesn’t dimish the signal. If people with one characteristics all wear the same thing it becomes a stronger signal for that characteristics.