Tim Bray has an interesting take on the blue suit, black leather shoes and white shirts that are the dominant dress code at the top of the corporate (and government) food chain:
One reason all this works is that the eye soon tunes out the clothes and focuses on the faces (since hairstyles are also conservative, there is little distraction). A little thought reveals that this is highly appropriate in a milieu that is all about politics, because politics is all about individual people and the relationships between them, and a culture tending to uniform dress, perhaps paradoxically, may focus more attention on the individual, simply because thereâââ‰â¢s less to distract the eye from the face.
