As the downturn in the economy continues, more people are leaving their casual wear at home and reverting back to formal wear at work. Some managers now consider the dress-down style, once highly popular during the peak of dot-com success, a sign of laziness and carelessness. Some believe that formal wear helps improve job security by conveying an impressionable appearance to customers and employers.
See "Workplace: Dress-Down Is Down if Not Quite Out", Amie Parnes, The New York Times, June 12, 2001