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For those of us in the industry,Buy Cheapest Levi's Mens T-shirts Online in Australia, Compare Prices of 2 Products from the best Stores. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs left a lasting legacy when they liberated information technology workers from the tyranny of the business suit. Because of their insistence on informal wear, all of us have been able to dress comfortably since at least the 1990s.

These men were motivated variously with respect to clothing. Steve Jobs hated buttons. His shirts had none, and his products, few.

In the early days, Bill Gates wore shirts with few buttons. He was seen frankly in t-shirts, or knit polos with up to three buttons below a modest collar. In his famous arrest photo he has some god-awful sweater over what appears to be a kind of flower-child shirt with a weird high collar. Given his Harvard affiliation, he also sometimes wore oxfords, often with the sleeves partially rolled, but never a tie. In addition,Discount Juicy Suits sale Gates had a reputation early on — before Melinda got a hold of him — for sketchy hygiene as well as general scruffiness.

On the eve of Microsoft's split from IBM over development of the latter's OS/2 operating system, Gates flew a redeye from Seattle to New York. Likely he had been working on Windows straight through for several days and may not have had time to change his shirt at any point before boarding.

He arrived in New York at dawn, rented a car, and drove up to IBM's headquarters in Armonk, looking for Jim Cannavino, then head of IBM's PC division. Of course, the muckety-mucks weren't in the office yet, and a young Steve Schuckenbrock (now president of Dell Services), was asked to keep Gates in check. So pumped was Gates that he flitted from office to office to see what operating system people were actually running. (He suspected Windows was already more popular than OS/2.) Schuckenbrock had to tell him that he couldn't just go into people offices and had to stay in the conference room. His host also noted that Gates was redolent of many late nights' programming effort.

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And, before too long, a number of them got rich. Merchants in Seattle learned not to stare too contemptuously at the unkempt hippies nosing around their merchandise at the front of the store. That lad in the Birkenstocks (with socks) and t-shirt might be a VP at Microsoft who could buy the whole store and everything in it.