You can't stand people in suits? Why do you even care?
Let actions speak rather than clothes. I've known programmers who wore fastidiously cut suits and programmers who wore birks and cutoffs. Both clothing classifications produced fast, capable, flexible programmers who could think on their feet, and both classes also produced morons who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag.
Look beyond the surface and you will end up hiring a much higher quality programmer.
You are right, I was wrong. I was overly rhetorical.
If you like to wear suits, by all means. Sometimes a really nice button down shirt and nice pants feels good.
What really gets me is mandatory dress codes that don't have anything to do with the work getting done, and the outdated thinking that wearing nice clothes means anything. If that's how you are comfortable, please.
Let actions speak rather than clothes. I've known programmers who wore fastidiously cut suits and programmers who wore birks and cutoffs. Both clothing classifications produced fast, capable, flexible programmers who could think on their feet, and both classes also produced morons who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag.
Look beyond the surface and you will end up hiring a much higher quality programmer.