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Re:Be careful with that thing, it's a confidential coffee maker by goodpoint on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @04:44PM (#31185548)
> we can look at a bunch of techies wearing near-identical tee shirts and hoodies and somehow not see a culture using clothes to signal belonging to the tribe.

No, casual dresscode allows for a much wider variety of clothing and goes in the opposite direction than "signal belonging to the tribe".

Re:Be careful with that thing, it's a confidential coffee maker by a4isms on Thursday April 28, 2022 @02:35PM (#31196421)
In some cultures, perhaps. But I assure you, my n=1 experience is with plenty of companies that switched from a typical jacket-and-tie dress code to business causual, and ended up with a “huge amount of variety:”

All of the men wore golf/polo shirts, khakis, and tasseled loafers, but some wore oxblood loafers while others wore black or even brown loafers. And some wore plain leather belts, others wore woven leather belts.

</sarcasm>

Some cultures value conformance, and even if the rule is “wear whatever you like, as long as it’s not jeans or tee shirts,” they’ll self-organize around an unwritten rule of what to wear.

Re:Be careful with that thing, it's a confidential coffee maker by goodpoint on Thursday April 28, 2022 @03:02PM (#31196789)
I'm afraid that's more of a reflection of people's taste in clothing where you live than anything else.
Re:Be careful with that thing, it's a confidential coffee maker by a4isms on Thursday April 28, 2022 @04:17PM (#31197676)
We'll have to disagree on this. What you call a bunch of people having the same taste in clothing, I call social signalling.
Re:Be careful with that thing, it's a confidential coffee maker by goodpoint on Thursday April 28, 2022 @06:07PM (#31198810)
For n=1 that might be true.
Re:Be careful with that thing, it's a confidential coffee maker by LadyCailin on Friday April 29, 2022 @08:17AM (#31204172)
How do you figure that? If there is no dress code, people can wear everything in the set you’re describing, plus the no dress code set.