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Years and years ago I worked for a company named Electronic Data Systems - EDS. It was the organization that had been begun by Ross Perot although by the time I got there it was owned by General Motors.

Perot had come from IBM which had a well-known dress code for men: White shirt and tie, suit, black shoes with laces (not slip-ons because they are known as "loafers").

It came to pass in the mid-nineties that the authorities at EDS decided that casual Friday was the order of the day and so instituted that policy.

While the white shirt rule and the lace-up shoe rules had long since been abandoned, the suit-and-tie rule was well in force so during the week there were wide varieties of suits, shirts, ties, and shoes on display in the hallways and cafeterias.

Except for Fridays.

On casual Fridays almost every male employee of EDS wore khakis, a button-down shirt a V-neck sweater, and loafers.

Thus, the casual clothing on Fridays was more of a uniform than that worn during the other four days of the week.

Engineers.

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