However, if for you this news - in many organizations a strict dress code. Even jeans are taboo. It was not invented in Russia. It is widely practiced,
It may not have been invented in Russia, but it is hardly breaking the forehead in it.
When my wife was desperate to explain to me at least some meaning of this dress code, she rushed for help to our Western friends (he is a microbiologist, she is a customer manager). They shrugged their foreheads, didn’t really understand what they wanted from them and eventually answered, “Yes, you are what, we are not wild. The students? Yes, we and the professor can easily read a lecture in shorts".