Though they always claimed it was a question of ease and comfort, soon all wannabe tech wunderkinds were imitating Jobs’s attitude, even hiring fashion consultants to achieve the calibrated poise of stylish yet slovenly. Jack Dorsey, Tim Cook and Evan Spiegel got in on the act; Mark Zuckerberg implausibly claimed that his wardrobe consisted of 20 identical grey t-shirts. Soon they were even in Downing Street: first Steve Hilton, pacing the corridors barefoot, then Dominic Cummings, with what Vogue accurately called “a masterclass in eff-off dressing”.

In the years since, this uniform has even found a sponsor: the clones of Silicon Valley now reportedly all don a Huel-branded black tee. Genius doesn’t only have no time to dress — it has no time to eat. So when SBF rose to prominence there was nothing striking about him. One in three Congress members took money from the guy. He was exactly how you’d expect a trustworthy if eccentric tech prodigy to look.

But, with his imprisonment, the high-water mark of this style has definitively been reached. The decline and fall began when Zuckerberg and then his contemporaries became regulars at Congressional hearings, forced into jackets and ties like first-day sixth formers.

Yet Zuckerberg’s general wardrobe has undergone a vibe shift, as the Wall Street Journal reported this week, expanding to take in ribbed cardigans and designer blazers. Dressing down “is so played out”, said one Valley style consultant. And to replace it a new form of maximalism has arisen. Observe for instance Elon Musk’s white-tie tuxedos, or Jeff Bezos and his fiancée Lauren Sánchez, who increasingly look like they’d be more at home in the Goodfellas Bamboo Lounge than Amazon HQ.

Perhaps this is just a question of Silicon Valley boys becoming men. But it symbolises how the sector as a whole is trying to tame the excesses of its adolescence. The Apple revolution and Zuckerberg’s “move fast and break things” mentality have a different resonance in a world terrified of smartphones and Big Tech overreach.

And noticeably the tech gods aren’t returning to pure office traditionalism, but instead graduating to the Succession-chic of brands such as Loro Piana. As ever, the elite is regenerating its look to distinguish itself — and leaving the silhouette that made and unmade the 2010s behind.