Dressing the partThe dress-down explosion has already permeated many City firms, although some are holding out bravely.

But the revolution has caused civil strife also.

At City firm Field Fisher Waterhouse, where the IT department first dressed-down over a year ago, other modern-minded departments followed suit, so to speak.

All have now succumbed except one.

Tim Davies - head of corporate - is leading his department in a Custer's Last Stand, all in the name of starch.

But his staff are itching to get into something more comfortable.

'We're all waiting for him to just go with the flow,' a deep-throat in the department confides.