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I can think of times when it would be high-status; namely, if you're already seen to be high-status, it can show insolence.
Insolence: "I want your status but I don't have it... yet."
It's certainly higher status than submissiveness but not as high status as conveying that there isn't an immediate authority to whom you need to be insolent towards (whether that is because you are granted an acceptably high status through rapport with those above or because you grant it to yourself without a challenge that you accept.)
At the Oxford Union, James Dray (President) wore a hoody to debates (everyone else being in black tie) and slouched in the President's chair. It made him seem a little aloof and supremely confident.
Similarly, Caesar was excused from standing before the Senate.