Or, in high school, the right pair of jeans and tennis shoes. Businesspeople and teen-agers should switch, maybe. Bankers and lawyers slouching around in cargo pants and Sketchers and ninth-graders pondering whether a full or half Windsor looks better with a spread collar. It would only seem ridiculous until your eyes adjusted. After that, it's just fashion.
Cowboys wear hats, accountants wear suits and bikers wear tattoos.
Put a computer programmer in a Brooks Brothers suit and see the stares they get around the office. Walk through the mall at lunchtime and you can pick out the housewives and the engineers from Fluke and the machinists from Boeing and the kids who ought to be in class. Uniforms is what it comes down to. Uniforms for what we do and who we are. Or who we want to be.