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When I worked at fashion startups in New York, women did wear outfits like this, including the engineers. The engineer in question is in Buenos Aires where both sexes tend to have a bit more flair.

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Key point here: Fashion startup. I'm not trying to argue that women never dress like that anywhere else, but I think you've got a very skewed viewpoint.

I agree that it's probably not something a Cisco engineer would be wearing, but it seems like a normal 20-something outfit in Manhattan.

I think this would fit the reserved 1% of the cases and would be perfectly acceptable and probably even encouraged. I imagine an otherwise wide gap in type of attire could create possible tension in the work group, of varied nature.

It could, but to me it looks to me like a normal outfit a 20 something woman would wear in Manhattan.

This reminds me of working with crotchety gen-X and above sysadmins. They complain about "hipsters" but the people they are talking about are wearing standard issue clothes from the mall that everyone in that age bracket wears. They don't realize that wearing a "JavaConf 1999" fleece, bat-belt, cargo shorts and Tevas is not what other people consider normal work attire.

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