It's not too flash; modern marketing types would probably point out how it'd go well with jeans, and that the vertical flash is very flattering for the larger gentleman (unlike, for example, the conceptual jape Kappa played on Robbie Keane a few years ago).
In the past, as Mr Brin notes, innovation was dominated by elites the "wealthy gentlemen tinkerers", for example—who had privileged access to information, money and markets.He is right.
Or in a more sophisticated environment, a gentleman's club for example, the high levels of maintenance required to intensely condition, blow-dry and style the nail hairs will impress any suitor of a higher calibre.
The Economist's London offices are surrounded by gentlemen's clubs, for example, to which ladies are admitted only as guests.
The idea that gentlemen should behave honorably, for example, was an idea that high-status people traditionally used to differentiate themselves from low-status people.
For example, gentlemen's eyeglasses, $20 a pair, and so on, for any number of items, perhaps scores, perhaps thousands.
For example, a gentleman I know who is founder of a successful company recalls the time in the not too distant past his world, as he knew it, imploded.
For example, one gentleman, in his 40s with crisp pants walked with a staccato pace.
In her 98th year she was still writing articles for Vanity Fair magazine, noting with regret, for example, that gentlemen no longer wore hats and that women no longer flirted, something she said she herself never failed to do.
