The reasons to wear a black shirt are far simpler than the author purports: contrast & focus.
I learned this while presenting. If you wear clothing with a slogan, you are giving your audience a potential distraction, or something to read while they should be listening. Even a colored shirt can be a potential distraction, unless it is worn specifically for the purpose of brand association.
This is why you should not wear a clever slogan while presenting, even if it's your own brand.
As a light, Caucasian presenter, I prefer to wear a dark, featureless shirt because it highlights my facial features and directs the audience to my face and speech. Except for my hands, which I can use for pointing or demonstrating a process, in which case, I don't want a long sleeved-shirt to get in the way, and when there are plenty of lights, to stay cool.
Interesting. I prefer white or charcoal grey pocket Ts as daily wear. I've had some black Ts, but as a person of pallor I found the contrast a bit stark.
I think I look best in the white shirts, but for a presentation I can see the value of going with a dark one.
What a bunch of endless drivel. Don’t they have editors at The Atlantic? Given the amount of material, this article should’ve been no longer than one page.
Not that many. Do you know what their margins are?
It surprises me that people still talk and demand editors and proof-readers in an era where articles are paid 1/5 (or less) of what they were 10-20 years ago, and news outless are crumbling down tiny advertising revenues...
It's like going to a $10 buffet diner in the interstate, and expecting Morton's level steaks...
Seriously, in this day and age, it's like expecting some death-march software project, done with impossible deadlines and shortcutes by low paid programmers, to not have any bugs...
I would honestly like to see more on the topics like this. As I've come to gain more and my responsibility and prestige within the organizations I'm affiliated with, I've found clothing can be a particularly effective tool in shaping the course of interactions with other people. Showing up in an outfit that reflects how you wish to be treated can be far more effective than anything you can say to that point.
It's the least ugly color you can wear, on the most basic article of clothing you can wear besides jeans. And they're wearing jeans.
You can certainly wear better clothing! But all things being considered, it's the laziest possible option of clothing to wear that still looks "decent". They wanted to be comfortable and not have to think about how they look. And Jobs rolled up the sleeves because it would have awkward/ugly not to.
For one, that's not a spelling error (all the words are spelled correctly). It's a grammatical error. And not even one due to ignorance: it's merely a typo.
Second, you should expect it to happen much more in the days of low paid journalists, miniscule budgets, fewer (if any) copy editors, tiny advertising margins, and attempts to churn tons of articles as fast as possible to capture eyeballs. This isn't the 1970's Washington Post or New York Times. What we know about editors and proof-reading is almost obsolete in the web these days.
So we're better off appreciating the value (if there's any) of the content itself, instead of letting these kind of things distract us.
I learned this while presenting. If you wear clothing with a slogan, you are giving your audience a potential distraction, or something to read while they should be listening. Even a colored shirt can be a potential distraction, unless it is worn specifically for the purpose of brand association.
This is why you should not wear a clever slogan while presenting, even if it's your own brand.
As a light, Caucasian presenter, I prefer to wear a dark, featureless shirt because it highlights my facial features and directs the audience to my face and speech. Except for my hands, which I can use for pointing or demonstrating a process, in which case, I don't want a long sleeved-shirt to get in the way, and when there are plenty of lights, to stay cool.