^ When I worked night shift at Wal-Mart, I wore a Darth Vader costume all night (excepting part of my shift, during which I removed the mask so as not to decrease my efficiency. Among my co-workers, it was actually one of the less outlandish.
9 pages into this thread, the tone seems to be mostly against the original creator of the thread. The fact that so many people actually have a strong feeling against something so trivial in the scope of an individual's life as what that person wants to wear in his spare time says something strange about those taking the offense here.
Take a step back. The only thing Cmdr Sho has admitted to is frequently wearing his ST uniform in public because he likes to do that. Somehow, his - admittedly unique interest - has been transformed by this body into some sort of anti-social unpardonable sin. If you think he is wierd, go spend a day watching what people wear to the Wal-Mart, or what people do on the streets downtown. Trust me. This is a piece of cake.
It is one thing to say something along the lines of "I would feel wierd doing that." It is a little extreme and strange though, to take it further than that and start turning it into a psychological judgment game.
The reason this is a big issue is essentially because we all have social codes that we live by, and whenever it gets out that somebody is doing something unusual, human instinct kicks in and we feel that we have to prove our "normalness" by putting down the "wierd" one.
The people who take the strongest stand against wierd behavior are usually the ones who are most afraid of allowing their true personality to surface. If we are going to ban Star Trek uniforms in public as taboo, what's next? Santa? Christmas Carols? T-Shirts with cartoons on them? If I said something condescending to everyone who wore something that I thought was undesirable, I would alienate myself from about 90% of the active population.
