In other words, "Suits make a corporate comeback" ?
On a less derisive note, a friend and I were riding the JR line in Tokyo when my friend pointed to the hand stitching on the suit of the salaryman (or not? ChatGPT tells me "yakuin" refers to the moire powerful decision-making company employees) standing next to us.
That was a cool thing about public transportation where even the high-flyers travel with gaijin tourists.
I did the whole "it's cool to wear t-shirts to work" startup thing, and now that I'm a little older and the stakes are a bit higher in the office, It does feel a bit disrespectful to look "unserious".
So it's probably a perennial moment: ppl getting older. Maybe I'm boring now.
(Also, died at loss in your footer, and the MD timeline of discovery is cool -- submit it here!)
So I started dressing a little less informally.