I've actually found that I've been penalized more for 'over-dressing' than for underdressing over here. I worked a small marketing job for a while a couple year

I've actually found that I've been penalized more for 'over-dressing' than for underdressing over here. I worked a small marketing job for a while a couple years back, and I picked up on wearing suits as an effective way to 'hack' most people into giving you more credibility than you would otherwise initially get (which works great with the whole 'fake-it-til-you-make-it' program an introvert like me needed). So I experimented with this idea and wore a suit pretty much everywhere for about a year (not like traditional white-collar + boring tie suits mind you, think more 'Jonny Cash with a flashy tie'), and while most normal people were receptive to this style (as I expected), I noticed that a fair share of programmers/techies were generally put off/uncomfortable with it. I found it a bit ironic, since I felt I was just doing the same anti-status-quo thing programmers initially did by owning the 'underdressed' style; but I guess it's just too soon for techies to be comfortable with that kind of 180.