I don&#x27;t see that at all. Lawyers in general dress better than most other professions except finance. I&#x27;ve worked in hospitals and never saw the doctors dressing as well as lawyers[1] - some consultants do, but far from the majority doctors. Friends of mine are in architecture, and I don&#x27;t see that there either. Same with engineering in general - neat casual seems much more par for the course. Academics also don&#x27;t often fit the bill.<p>In contrast, the &#x27;neckbeard and star wars t-shirt&#x27; is something I&#x27;ve never personally seen working in tech. Neckbeard, yes. I&#x27;ve worked in one waterfall shop and four agile shops, and liaised with techies in enterprise from time to time (zero t-shirts there) - the &#x27;sci-fi geek visible at 100 yards&#x27; is a trope, a stereotype. The techies I&#x27;ve worked with have been overwhelmingly male (only one female developer in all that time) and about half of them were family men. That&#x27;s something the &#x27;computer professional&#x27; stereotype actively opposes, instead painting people that are into computers as social losers who can&#x27;t get a girl.<p>IT is more accepting of shabbiness in dress than other professions, but I simply don&#x27;t see the sloganed t-shirt as being the <i>actual</i> standard attire of computer professionals. Instead it seems more to be a shorthand stereotype, just like a white coat and stethoscope signals &#x27;doctor&#x27; in the collective mind.<p>[1] I do have bias here - when I say &#x27;lawyers&#x27;, I mean ones in business. I haven&#x27;t had interaction with lawyers dealing in personal matters. I imagine they dress to suit.