Comments on: Style over substance

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:07:34 +0000

Wow! And I thought I hated ties!!

Is it possible that the Iranians are just more evolved than us, at least when it comes to men’s fashion?*grin*

By: von Kaufman-Turkestansky

von Kaufman-Turkestansky — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:14:06 +0000

Look at this opinion about neckties from India…
http://ram-nagarajan.sulekha.com/blog/post/2005/09/you-ll-never-tie-me-up-you-ll-never-tie-me-down.htm ..

By: Younghusband

Younghusband — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:10:28 +0000

I should have put “devout Muslim” in quotation marks.

As for the beard thing, I found it not necessary. I thought about the same thing when I went, but was surprised to see that it isn’t that common to wear a beard in Iran. It may be more of an Arab thing(?).

By: Curzon

Curzon — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:21:27 +0000

Addendum: I think, more accurately, ties were abolished as anti-Western, not evidence of being a “devout Muslim.”

But yes, I know Japanese businessmen who go to Iran and deliberately (1) forget their ties, which are like uniform in Japan, and (2) start to grow beards, another thing you rarely see in Japan.