When talking about tech guys, geeks, nerds’ dress code, what images would pop up in your head?
You think because the pictures are too old? How about these?
The above two were taken in 2008. Look at the red tie, ewwww!
I remember complaining to my fellow programmer friends that the worst thing about being a programmer is that you are not supposed to dress smart, if you turned up at work in suit and heels, people would think you are going somewhere else for a job interview.
Lots of programmers take dressing smart as a hard concept to grasp and think that’s totally irrelevant to what they do, which is very sad in my opinion. Are t-shirts and jeans tech guys’ iconic wardrobe possessions, or tech guys just don’t need wardrobes because they only throw their clothes on the floor?
We were asked to dress smart at work today. I went to office in a small-collar-thin-lapel suit with skinny tie combination, which has being popular for the last two years and recently it even caught more attention because of the popular TV series ‘Mad Men’. I was comfortable with my tastes on clothes, and fortunately people liked it. The problem is: as a programmer, I seemed somehow ‘over-dressed’. The popular acknowledgment turned to be that tech guys’ smartness of clothing should be lower than other people at least one level under the same dress code, why is that? Is it a stereotype or most tech guys are just being lazy?
After work, I did a search with keywords “trendy nerd” on Google, there are only 346 results. Which made me wondering is there anything wrong with tech guys’ dress sense or it’s just me that likes ties? Would that even unqualify me being a good programmer?
Personally I like work clothes very much, it’s not I am having a suit fetish. In my mind, this is not about how you want other people to see you, it’s more about how you see yourself, how you feel about yourself – it’s more of an attitude.
Geek clothes can not be trendy or stylish, but there is also a difference between casual and slobby.
If you really don’t like suit, at least you can think different. XD
