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There is a protected class of person who holds a cultural ideal and keeps these kinds of things going. My former CTO would not take financial advice from anyone with a beard. Another, not from someone who wore rubber soled shoes (wood all the way). These were ways of life from multi-millionaires.

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I would hope that with time, companies run by CTOs like that would be competed away as new anti suit companies enter the ring, and as new fintech startups begin changing the culture of finance. Some of my friends in banking already speak of the magic of relaxed dress codes...

I'm assuming it was leather soles, not wood. Wood sounds like a terrible sole material.

Probably parent was thinking of Dutch clogs :)

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