Double Down
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Some men can wear dress pants/khakis well.
For the men who can't, a pair of moderately expensive, nice dark jeans probably look better. Pair with a button down and a jacket and good shoes. The bigger/taller you are, the more that jacket helps.
If you're a smaller, thinner-waisted man, dress up if you can afford it.
This is, I think, the best advice.
My default is a nice dark (and freshly-ironed) pair of jeans and a sportcoat. Dress shirt, no tie. It's a good mix of professional and casual. You take the jacket off in the pressbox so you don't get hot, roll up your sleeves to work/type, and you roll them down and put the jacket on when you go down for interviews. I'll wear a tie to the Kentucky Derby and Super Bowl, but usually the no-tie, sportcoat look is a solid bet for anything unless it's 99 degrees.