I tend to think that if management is pushing this down, then there's probably been an issue with the IT team dressing appropriately.
I've been in large companies over the years and some of the IT people really pushed the bottom end of "business casual".

You have to think about this though:
The outsourced company they could hire to replace your department will almost definately wear some sort of team shirt when they are in the office.
In fact, I bet they'd be happy to.

In my current job, the entire network engineering team was given a full set of various style company logo shirts. We are to wear these
when visiting customer and vendor sites, or perhaps on days when there are meetings with various in-house departments.
I don't have a problem with it. It isn't a hard rule to follow. There's nothing wrong with projecting a consistent professional company image
when interfacing with the public or other companies.

The shirts are also good to wear on days when visiting head-end buildings working on racks or running wiring or fibers along the rails where
all the nasty dust bunnies are. No sense in dirtying up personal clothes :)

Oh and congrats taco and /. crew! Here's to a 100k more!

*blinks* Did someone say something? I thought I felt a "disturbance" in my "force"

If by Eve, you mean CCP, no they won't do anything. This was an entirely player-run
operation, it is the players issue to resolve.

Unless rules were broken (player accounts were hacked, real money traded hands, etc.), CCP will sit
back and analyze it and perhaps post some numbers to the community if they find anything interesting.

CCP has someone with a PHD in economy/finance on their staff. I'm sure he's watched the numbers closely
since the EBank events.