[ih] vint's 3 piece suits

[Miles Fidelman]

But a tie, at USC, in the 60s???  What's up with that?  :-)

Miles

On 8/8/20 9:19 PM, vinton cerf via Internet-history wrote:
> Actually, if anything, it was a protest against excessive uniformity. I did
> not want to look like everyone else and just be one in a crowd. So I
> decided to dress differently. And the choice of tie, sports coat and slacks
> could not possibly have produced much objection from the faculty. Van Nuys
> High was not a "uniformed" school. And can you imagine the consequences if
> they tried to "retaliate" against my dressing more formally than my
> classmates? :-)))
>
> v
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 4:33 PM the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via
> Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
>> vint, could you further add to our Internet History corpus with some
>> elucidation on that of which you were summarily protesting in high school
>> with such "formal" haberdashery?
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 10:26 AM Dave Crocker <dhc at dcrocker.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/8/2020 1:11 PM, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via
>>> Internet-history wrote:
>>>>      - did vint also sport 3 piece suits in high school?
>>> yes.  he's said that that was his form of protest.  protest was popular
>>> in those days.
>>>
>>> d/
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