As someone who consults people about proper business attire (a side business of mine), let me tell you that this advice is dangerous. The idea of wearing "borin

As someone who consults people about proper business attire (a side business of mine), let me tell you that this advice is dangerous. The idea of wearing "boring" standard stuff (like a tie) is that clothes shouldn't get in your way and IF you intend to emphasize aspects of your personality THEN you should do it more subtle. Most people (especially IT) wear their business clothes wrong and it takes me less than 1 second to spot the major errors and around 2 seconds to see more sartorial disasters. And then such a fella puts on a bow tie and looks like a wannabe, a fake. And it shows me that--considering his other sartorial flaws--he doesn't care about detail enough to get the whole thing right. tl;dr: If you don't know how to dress and wear a bow tie, it probably backfires. If you know how to dress, you don't need people telling you to put on a bow tie.