Does tech discriminate against suits?

I suppose the original reason tech rebelled against the suit was because a suit represented conformity, an aggressively enforced dress code. Now, I suppose you could say that tech aggressively enforces a casual dress code, to the point where wearing a suit becomes an act non-conformity. I'm not joking here, the blog post is absolutely right, wearing a suit may seem mildly eccentric in a tech company. I see various people (including coworkers) wearing suits, and there is a counter-culture element to it. Suits are worn in different forms at the Dickens fair, by jazz and ska musicians (and people in the audience), and by other counter-cultural types (there was a guy who worked at Peet's coffee who always wore a suit and bowler hat).

SF is a place where this is particularly mixed up, since SF was probably the most east coast-ish of west coast cities where it came to wearing suits as part of the old dress code, and there are still a few more conservative industries here (banking, law) where suits are work as part of the older formal work culture than a new countercultural trend.

As for me? I like suits, I think they look great. I have never been required to wear a suit to work, so I never really associated them with conformity (I wore them mainly at weddings and a very few parties, so I have positive connotations). Like Greg Foster (author of the post), people would give me a strange look if I wore a suit to the office, but now that I think about it, there actually is one guy who wears a suit to the office every day...

But Mad Men is a show largely about its characters' bad behavior--their casual bigotry, crass money-grubbing, etc. If you're wearing a suit because you want to be Don Draper, you're not just a poor interpreter of television; you're probably a pretty poor excuse for a person.

I don't have anything against suits, per se. I'd point out that there are a lot of points on the spectrum between full-casual and a suit, though. I tend to wear business casual; comfortable, flattering, not too expensive. But it feels pretty grotesque to complain that you're being discriminated against for choosing to wear expensive, tailored clothing, especially when there are people really suffering discrimination because of their gender or the color of their skin.

Business suits are business wear, not formal wear, which is a whole different category of clothing. Formal wear being required in the office would be a very odd thing, indeed.