Do you know how that got started? I’d guess that it is similar to what happened where I once worked. I was an Industrial Engineer at a defense electronics plant (we made an air-launched device that the Navy uses to track and locate submarines). The standard clothing was a golf shirt and jeans. The girls working on the assembly lines had a tradition of dressing up the day or two before Christmas. The man I worked with on our line said, “we ought to dress up ourselves,” so we both decided to wear a dress shirt and tie. The reactions we got were so positive that we just decided to continue. When I left there several years later, that had become the standard – almost all of the Industrial Engineers were wearing a dress shirt and tie. All it takes is for someone to take the lead.

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