In NYC, outside of a goodly number of men who care, there is an ocean of men who cant compete and thus claim the entire enterprise of caring is decadent/precious. It's hard to make that claim about me but I could see how it could be daunting to many men who have the right mind to groom themselves and get a personal style together. The women here appreciate it, young men apprentice it and so do gay men, thus depending on which way you "dress", rewards can abound.

I should note that there are suddenly a lot more women in the professions here and I find myself dealing with them more and more. I can tell you that my observation is they take grooming and personal style deadly serious. Frankly, the only people who don't are the second rate and the elder hangers on who consider a pink shirt a sign of being a lightweight.

One note about the numbers of women now occupying  accounting, law, banking etc.. is that they've somewhat solved the professional female wardrobe ills that have haunted women since the seventies. They no longer have to be either anti fashion, anti sexuality or imitations of men. Very interesting.