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I worked at the SEC for two years and although the day-to-day dress in my office was business casual, I wore a suit to the interview.  I wouldn't have felt comfortable in anything else.  [/quote]

+1.  I think the only interview I ever didn't wear a suit to was in high school when I applied to Kohls to be a cashier and I wore a shirt and tie to that interview.  I also always wear a suit when I show up the first day for work.[/quote]

+2  I work in the private sector, and I always wear a suit to an interview.  At my current job, the dress code is on the very casual side of business casual (e.g. in the summer, people wear jeans during the week, not just on Fridays).  I wore a suit to the interview and it did not feel out of place at all, even though the two guys I interviewed with wore very casual polo-type shirts.  I probably would not pass on an otherwise qualified candidate who didn't wear a suit, but it would definitely cause me to wonder about their sense of judgement.  And a former boss at a different organization was seriously considering not giving someone an offer because that guy's suit "looked funny" (I think it was a strange shade of gray, or something like that).  You just don't want to stand out in a negative way like that .[/quote]

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