[kingkongrevenge]

What I really don't get is these people who seem to WANT to look like shit. We don't have a dress code here. I could easily wear jeans over half the time. But I don't and nobody else does because it looks horrible. Personally, I find being surrounded by well dressed people a substantial workplace selling point.

Do you have any idea how juvenile and tasteless you look in cheap jeans and sneakers? Do you realize how much dramatically better you look with proper shoes and well cut wool pants? To give up that advantage just indicates idiocy to me.

[steveklabnik]

> Do you have any idea how juvenile and tasteless you look in cheap jeans and sneakers? Do you realize how much dramatically better you look with proper shoes and well cut wool pants? To give up that advantage just indicates idiocy to me.

I won't deny that dressing up is a social advantage, but sometimes people care about some things more than strictly getting ahead. It's entirely possible that an individual could place more value on being comforatble than on getting that raise or promotion.

[msluyter]

Wool? That's a dirty word here in 100 degree+ Austin, TX. Otherwise, matters of style/taste are subjective, or, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Pretty much everyone in our office wears jeans and, shrug, it just doesn't seem to have any negative impact that I can observe.

[kingkongrevenge]

Summer weight wool is cooler than cotton.

[AndrewDucker]

See, that's a matter of taste. I think suits look ridiculous, and jeans look much more like clothes that real people wear, rather than a costume.