And no, Robot Arm, you’re not unique. You’re a very typical Doper who fits right in here. 
That’s a pretty ambitious project, and I dig the premise. Cool.
I liked the link, thanks.
What’s the problem with the “dreads” page, by the way? I looked at the pictures again and didn’t notice anything unusual…
I like to think I am unique. I know there are only so many personality types and interests, and that there might be people that look like me and act like me out there.
But I don’t see how these pictures show anything. They look contrived, the people dont really look that similar, and even if they are dressing the same, it doesn’t mean they have similar personalities. I have seen people wear the same clothes as myself and they weren’t anything like me.
They show boobies! And in the US, boobies are BAAAAAAAAAD.
No, seriously, perfectly healthy and clean nudity is considered very NSFW. When I see the kinds of things other people pass around on the company net in other countries I am amazed.
Ooooooops. That’s the group I look most like. And I am completely not involved with any religious activity.
I need to get a haircut.
Sattua, what sort of vibe does the " juffen"-look give off to an American, then? These things are hard to culturally translate…
There was a recent thread where Elmwood described a lady he was dating as having the school-teachers look. Think “Mom” hair, no make-up, no attemtp at sexiness, and dickies (fluffy sweaters with bunny’s and rainbows). Now, that would make for an interesting exactitude.
Well, I live in the Midwest. I think that most people think that I am German Baptist–not quite Mennonite, but something heading in that direction. When they meet me in the context of my hard-core Jewish major professor, they assume that I am an Orthodox Jew (apparently, unmarried women don’t have to cover their hair?). Once, the CEO of a company I am consulting for sidled up to me and said, “so, you are Orthodox?” I blurted out, “Orthodox what?”
I’ve also been mistaken for a religious Russian with an exceptionally good American accent. That came out of left field.
I’m getting my hair cut on August 5. Yes I am!
Sorry for multipost. I am still thinking about what vibe I give off. It’s so complicated, because the regions of the country are so different. Here in the Midwest, I think that my clothes alone say, pretty clearly, “graduate student in the humanities, who is teaching a class today and wants to look nice.” What makes people think I might be an Orthodox-something is the long hair tied up in a knot.
When I go to New York on business, I probably just look like a country bumpkin from the Midwest.
Yesterday I went to a conference that was a gathering of people who all had one thing in common (granted, a pretty big thing). They all looked just like me (well, there was one Muslim woman, but besides the headscarf she looked just like everyone else, and she wasn’t the only one with a covered head anyway). My mom and I had a fun time looking at people on the street and pegging the conference-goers. We nearly all had sensible sandals–Birks, not usually flip-flops–crop pants or hippie skirts, and long hair; on the whole, very earth-mama-looking folks.
It would be funny to work in a conference center and see all the ‘groups’ that come in. My husband is at a conference right now that will be all computer geeks forced to wear company shirts. Then there’s the business ones, with suits and heels and ties. The teachers, the nurses, the librarians, the RPG-players or SF geeks, on and on…
I am actually chopping off my hair next week, but I’ll grow it right back.
Maybe I’m odd, but the people in the different frames of each exactitude set don’t look very much like each other to me. They’re just dressed and posed the same. And that’s from a person who can’t match names and faces worth a damn.
What AHunter3 said. Also, who are the Young Executives? They look 12. Or did the photographers just go out and round up the most baby-faced businessmen they could find?
They look like conservative upper middle-class Christian girls, or more specifically, female students at Christian colleges, where they are mostly required to dress in long skirts and have long hair too.
Here’s the description from the book. All descriptions are short like this.
“Preppy dudes dress up once a month in daddy’s clothes to debate, opinionate and drink tea. Inside hierarchy counts.”
I looked at that page, and I’m convinced it’s the posing that creates the broad similarities. Of course these people look somewhat alike: they’re all human. Plus, they’ve been pointedly grouped by dress and sometimes by “race”. But how similar is the “just fit” white guy to the buff black guy?
Gabberbitches?
And is that a popular hairstyle?
How do you magnify the pictures?
I look exactly like one of the girls in the Emo one, all of their clothing are things I’d wear, but I’m not emo! I don’t even really know that that is.
Zebra, gabberbitches are a Dutch phenomenon from the mid-nineties. They were the female counterpart to “gabbers”. Gabbers (shaved heads, joggingsuit of a certain brand) were vaguely White Power-types. Hence the partiall shaved head and the Dutch-flag hairbands in the girls. The difference between Dutch skinheads and Dutch gabbers was that to gabbers, racism was on the side and mainly entertained for shock-value. Typically gabbers were a-political and only interested in dancing (" hakken") at hardcore house parties to music with a gazzilion beats per minute.
I haven’t seen a gabber or gabberbitch in years.
On the site, I haven’t discovered how to do it, either. But the pictures in the book are of better quality.
I don’t know what an emo is either. I guess it’s something like Young, Alternative, Positive and Christian.
Thanks for not making me feel alone. I was feeling incredibly dense, as I just couldn’t see what we were supposed to be getting. They don’t look the same, they’re not dressed the same…