I’ve always worked tech jobs that didn’t require a suit.
Maybe someday the world will get rid of them at workplaces.
Suits are fine for special events. Church, weddings, or a night out with the wife. I don’t want to work in one.
I own one suit and one tux. It’s been 10 years since I wore the suit, and about 4 years since I wore the tux. I kinda enjoy wearing the tux; not so much the suit.
I just bought one, and a vest as well, to wear to a wedding next month.
I wear khakis and button down shirts and I’m way overdressed here. but I’m old.
To be fair, nobody but elderly manager types wore suits at Bell Labs either. So it might be the industry.
One thing that can be difficult for us guys, is how much room a suit takes up when traveling.
My Wife’s dress will take up the same space as a shoe box. I’ll need the whole garment bag for my suit. For a summer occasion, my size 13 dress shoes take up nearly as much space as my wife’s whole outfit 
I have it on good authority that they’re a surprisingly good customer. Also they like what you’ve done with the living room.
Yeah, that rug really pulls the room together.
Well, since I just posted about that in the hardwood floor thread, I’m surprisingly undisturbed.
And I love Big Brother.
I’ve worked in white-collar jobs, at big companies, for a quarter-century. I wore a suit every work day until around 1995; at that point, the adoption of “business casual” in the US was a lot more rapid than anyone expected. Even companies and industries which were long bastions of business suits (law firms, companies like IBM) eventually made the switch.
I currently work at an advertising agency (one of the biggest in the US), and my usual attire in the office is a polo shirt, a pair of jeans, and sneakers.
I still always have one or two business suits in my wardrobe, but I don’t wear them often – they tend to be limited to attending big meetings, to visiting clients who still maintain a “business attire” dress code (and there aren’t many of those left), and to attending weddings and funerals.
TL;DR: IME, in the US, the OP is proceeding from a faulty assumption.
For those of you in more casually attired businesses/environments, do your firm’s lawyers and bankers wear suits? Seems those 2 occupations are more resistant than others to casual attire. Probably more conservative the larger the firm/bank.
Haven’t read them in a while, but the 7th Circuit’s Rules (Guidelines?) used to specify that male lawyers were to wear dark colored business suits.
My lawyer wears a suit. The lawyer who handled my divorce was a woman who did not wear a suit. My ex’s lawyer wore a shirt and tie, but the shirt seemed to always have ink stains and food stains; almost as if he bought them that way.
At the local bank, all of the “bankers” (tellers, loan officers, etc) are women.
I take it a generally bad sign if my lawyer is dressed worse than me.
I work at a midsize insurance defense firm. We very rarely have clients in the office, and nobody wears a suit except to go to court/depositions or for client meetings.
IME, that’s what I’ve heard from lawyers, too – if they’re going to be meeting with people outside of the firm, they’ll still “suit up” (and they certainly will if they’ll be appearing in court), but not on a daily basis anymore.
Because they’ve been brainwashed by The Patriarchy to visually appeal to men since they were little children, even babies.
Ha!
FWIW, I don’t have a solid burgundy bow tie. I also have never worn a bow tie and the fez at the same time.
I took the tassel off of the fez, BTW. It kind of came unravelled about 20 years ago, and I never got a replacement. Don’t really want one.
And I think we all know there’s nothing that gets us hotter under the collar than a good skirtsuit and pantyhose. Rawr.
Well, okay. But I’ll need to see a picture of her before I go have another suit made.
Well a good bikers leather jacket is also very expensive. High quality athletic shoes cost more than the best dressy leather ones.
So I dont always see the connection.