Corporate Cultures... (Score 1)

Dress code for IT people varies a lot from place to place. In an upscale law firm, the IT guy never went around wearing jeans, not even in 1999. In my video games development studio, management wears the same grungy clothes as the other employees. These habits haven't changed because of the dot-com collapse. I think that, to a very great degree, dress code isn't so much a sign of the times as it is a mark of corporate culture.