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Technorati Tags: business attire,business casual,business dress,clothing,fashion Doesn’t it seem like a century ago that most businesses abandoned business attire for some sort of prefixed "casual" wear? It seems like that to me. Is it possible that our relaxed dress code contributed to our relaxed attitudes toward business ethics, frugality, and risk? I think so. Only a decade ago, I was required to wear a tie every day even when no clients were in the building. No one complained because there was no other way for programmers and business people to dress: you wore a tie if you were a man. Women wore pant suits or skirts and never open-toed shoes. Then the "casual Friday" thing started in some companies. Out in Silicon Valley, companies like Apple made famous the "open collar" and "no collar" worker–highly paid programmers and executives who wore jeans and t-shirts to work. Next thing you know, business magazines and psychologists told