Dress and manner still gate contact despite the shift to location-based identification

Evidence

Q; How about “making contact” with strangers? A: I think that the way a person presents himself, through his dress, through his walk, his mannerisms can either help or hinder making contacts with other persons. A hippie on Montgomery Street [San Francisco’s financial district] is very unlikely to make contact because the Montgom- ery Street people in their area are likely to alienate him [sic] just by the way he dresses. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 465

Categorization

• QUESTION: A tension in Lofland’s own argument: if identity is read by location, why does the interviewee still foreground dress and manner? Worth chasing how the two schemes coexist.