The new workwear: has the suit finally died?

Hardly anyone wears a suit to work now. How did we all get so scruffy? And what about all those lovely ties? Richard Godwin charts the demise of looking smart One afternoon about a decade ago, I was standing at a pub urinal not far from my old newspaper office when the man standing next to me opened up a conversation. "A tie, huh?" (He was American.) "Never take a job where they make you wear a tie." Freelancers warn against the entropic lure of Uniqlo stretch jogging bottoms