Alte has been, in various times, an engineer. In Germany, the home of serious engineering.  So she says this from experience.

If anything and I have this from a reliable source — namely myself, it will be a sincere relief to the male engineers around her to finally interact with an intelligent and competent woman who is easily recognizable as female. So many of the few females who venture into that domain are veritably indistinguishable from their male colleagues. This is the problem in engineering, and not that the men are in any danger of going into diabetic shock at the sight of a cute smile and even cuter shoes.

This nerd agrees.  I work with a bunch of highly intelligent women. Most of us are at times academically scruffy.

But when the girls pay attention to what they are wearing — which for some is every day, and for others when they are teaching or seeing clients — it does not in any way demean them. Instead it indicates that they are comfortable with being a woman.

And in every woman is a little girl who wants things to be pretty (as in every man is a little boy who wants to blow things up and drive fast). There is something sad when that girliness is not expressed and (to quote Alte)

The very idea that intelligent working women should cloak their beauty, vivacious charm, and pleasant personalities with boxy pants-suits and dour expressions is an aspect of feminism that I roundly denounce.

I’ve said this many times, but this male enjoys seeing women discuss things like clothes, shoes, arranging… decorating. He even tolerates the occasional suggestion from a few selected relatives.

There is nothing wrong that. Women should be women, not some effete ersatz eunuch so she fits into some politically correct dress code.