By Graeme Wearden, 18 November 2005 08:15
NEWS
IT professionals are bottom of the pile when it comes to natty dressing, an Australian corporate stylist has claimed.
Speaking at the Corporate Chic show in Sydney, Melanie Moss slammed tech workers for a litany of fashion crimes, including sporting short-sleeved shirts, man-made fibres and wrongly coloured socks.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Moss said: "Because the majority of IT people are not in front of customers all the time, they tend to slack off."
The IT industry is traditionally a place where fashion sense has taken a back seat to technical abilities. Moss, though, believes help-desk workers and staff at tech start-ups - many of whom are apparently guilty of wearing T-shirts to work - need to shape up.
She said: "The internet is now such a massive industry but people haven't caught up in terms of their dress."
Moss added that the second most badly dressed industry is the retail sector.
Graeme Wearden writes for ZDNet UK
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1. anonymous
Reminds me of an old Dilbert cartoon about what your work attire says about you. After a few choice giggles at standard corporate types the last frame showed a bearded guy wearing sunglasses, shorts, Hawian shirt & flip-flops. And what did these clothes say about him?
"I am the only person who understands the computer network - worship me."
2. spiney norman
Absolutely.
Since when is fashion a requirement for product design?