I see that a law professor is publishing an article arguing that law professors ought to dress better (link). As a charter member of the unmade-double-bed school of academic attire (and frequent winner of my own school’s worst dressed award), I need to remind the professor that:
- There is an inverse correlation between quality of costume and prestige of faculty: the fancier the school, the scruffier the costume. So if the dean does want his faculty to dress up, he had better make sure they don’t do it when the accrediters are around; and
- Neckties cut off blood flow to the brain.
And if he is looking for allies in the law firms, he is fighting a losing battle.
Nostalgia note: I was walking down the street in Istanbul once when a voice yelled out: hey, you look like a professor, you want to buy a carpet?
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