I'm about to graduate next year, and this question has been weighing on me a bit. Last summer, I interned on the West Coast for a major tech company and I noticed that most people didn't put a lot of effort into their appearance; a lot of the male SWEs on my team work old t-shirts and board shorts with sandals. Women also dressed pretty casually. My New York casual felt overdressed for California, and I ended up "dressing down" a lot, so to speak. Growing up, it's always been a kind of dream of mine to be able to wear the business-casual kind of look daily (sheath dresses, nice blouses with pencil skirts, blazers, heels), I was wondering if that's even feasible. Was what I witnessed last summer representative of tech in general? Are there any companies/locations where this wouldn't be too dressy? Do any women, in particular, have any advice on dressing for the industry (from your experience, does what you wear change others' treatment of you, and in your opinion, would it be for the best to "dress down", not just necessarily in terms formality, but also femininity when at work?)