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Fortunately I have a brother who has always been very fashion-conscious, and he’d take me in hand every few years when my fashion sense got too out of touch with reason and social acceptability.

Like a lot of my fellow geeks, fashion just wasn’t on the radar for me.

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For another thing, my fellow professors don’t exactly set the sartorial bar very high – and there’s a certain sense of bohemian “me-against-The-Machine” attitude expressed by violating “corporate” standards of dress.īut mostly I dress the way I do because I’ve never really learned how to dress otherwise. That might be ok in business or law (think John Houseman in Paper Chase) but for my classes and my teaching style, some level of rapport is crucial. For one thing, I interact regularly with younger people, mostly teenagers (I teach 100-level courses), and being too formal creates a barrier between my students and me. Functional casual, basically: jeans and khakis, an assortment of button-front shirts, some cotton sweaters.Īs a college professor, there’s not a lot of pressure on me to dress up. (I haven’t had a job interview in 9 years, but if I did, it would be suitable for that, too.) And I have my day-to-day clothes, which aren’t awful but which aren’t anything to brag about, either. I have a suit, of course, for weddings and funerals. But that’s not the real point, here the real point is that I have few clothes suitable for “adult” gatherings. Since he doesn’t usually see me dressed up, it stood out enough for him to remember. Indeed, I was wearing the exact same clothes I’d worn to the event four months earlier. After exchanging the usual pleasantries, he asked me an odd question: “Is this like your conference party outfit?” While I see this friend around town once in a while, this was the first time I’d seen him in a non-casual setting since Blogworld 4 months earlier. Just over a month ago, I ran into a friend at a CES event.

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