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Now I want to show up at our Zoom meetings in full camo. Doctors and soldiers get such cool uniforms, but us programmers are just business casual.

Plus then you could convince a few of your coworkers to show up in camo with you and make your manager nervous you’re about to do a hostile takeover of the company.

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I really like the mandatory programming socks my company prescribes. Waaaay better than business casual

I go for the classic 'Big Blue' look and wear a suit and tie. Helps me to mentally separate work and relaxation time, with the added benefit of getting better treatment from management.

Out of curiosity, in which kind of company do you work? In many techie environments, wearing a suit and tie would select you out of the job...

I like to dress up for work. If I have ever missed a job opportunity because I dressed "too formally" I think they did me a favor.

> Doctors and soldiers get such cool uniforms, but us programmers are just business casual.

Programmers' uniforms are excessively-expensive hiking clothes, or selvedge jeans with flannel and full-grain leather boots, ideally in a work- or jump-boot style.

"his colleagues, a gender-parity posse of young, smart-looking people, along with one graybeard (literally -- he had a Unix beard of great rattiness and gravitas) who had no fewer than seven devices on his belt, including a line tester and a GPS." -- Cory Doctorow

Related: the engineer's uniform of blue oxford button down shirt, khakis, and Clark Desert Boots.

This makes me think of the camo scenes in RDJ's Sherlock Holmes movie: https://tenor.com/view/sherlock-holmes-robert-downey-jr-chai...

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