The unhoused guy living in my bus shelter wears a Harvard sweatshirt. I assume he dropped out.

I would wear it around the house or walking my dog, but it seems weird to wear it to gatherings other than alumni events.

Latham or law firm gear looks dumb anyway. No one has heard of any of the firms.

#nologo

Anonymous wrote:I'd rather brand myself with a place I'm proud to be associated with than something like Gucci. I don't mind people from the best companies wearing gear either.
I have a lot of clothing I didn't pay for from top schools and companies. It is pretty much all I work out in now. I'm not going to impress anyone in the gym with it and it would be dumb to leave it in the closet.

This comment is funny to me because while I am not bothered by someone wearing corporate branded gear, I am confounded as to why it exists except to be worn at like corporate retreats. I think advertising that you work at Accenture or Latham or McKinsey or whatever is strange -- most people I know work at places like this and as a result no one is impressed by it. And I would think a lot of people who don't work at companies like this would also not be impressed but instead annoyed.

I just think there are almost no upsides to wearing this stuff and big potential downsides of coming off as braggy or even just overly identifying with your very corporate job.

It's not like if you own a brewery and wear the brewery's gear. That person makes/sells a product that makes people happy and is fun and interesting. Who wants to talk about consulting or corporate law practice at a neighborhood barbecue? No one, that's who.

At least when people where college gear it might spark a conversation about something interesting or pleasant.

Not sure why this thread is back but okay, I actually enjoy this argument.

I previously thought I didn't have any issue with this at all but then recently I went to a school function (public elementary) and was volunteering with the PTA. A kid of one of the other PTA parents showed up wearing an oversized Yale sweatshirt and I had a *visceral* negative reaction. Like I was suprised by how obnoxious it felt to me. Contributing factors:

- School has a very high at risk population with a lot of families whose parents did not go to college at all and some without high school degrees

- Kid who was wearing the sweatshirt is in a bit of a braggy/arrogant phase in general so this felt compounding

- Because the sweatshirt was oversized, the "Yale" was just freaking huge -- the letters were like 20 inches high and being worn by a small-for-their-age 2nd grader

I don't actually even know if either of the parents went to Yale! But that was a hard no for me and I filed away my reaction for the future so I don't make this mistake because I couldn't believe how gross this wound up coming off to me. Hard no.

If it's vintage ratty from when you got it while there, fine
If it's where your kid is going, ok.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone insecure enough to wear a Harvard name shirt instead of just the color crimson is a loser.

Not obnoxious, but unless you're @ a sporting event, seems really insecure.
Several of my neighbours often wear their Dartmouth or Princeton sweatshirts.

Not offensive

Anyone insecure enough to wear a Harvard name shirt instead of just the color crimson is a loser.

I'd rather brand myself with a place I'm proud to be associated with than something like Gucci. I don't mind people from the best companies wearing gear either.
I have a lot of clothing I didn't pay for from top schools and companies. It is pretty much all I work out in now. I'm not going to impress anyone in the gym with it and it would be dumb to leave it in the closet.

Anonymous wrote:I think it is ok to wear the clothes of your Alma mater.

+1

What I’ve observed in my area is people put the Ivy gear on their kid… makes it a smidge less obnoxious.

-Ivy grad who does not wear the gear (or put it on my kids)

Slightly cringier: sending your kids to school in Ivy sweatshirts. Tacky if you went there and embarassing if you didn’t.

This stuff last forever, why not wear it?