December 21, 2001
By Their Clothes Ye Shall Know Them
Long after we've forgotten what our professors told us in college, we remember what they wore. Attire has its own syntax and vocabulary, and it says both more and less than seems apparent.
I remember, for example, the impression one English professor made on me in my freshman year at Lafayette College: He wore frayed and faded jeans to class, with a blue work shirt. On his feet were a pair of battered sneakers. It was a look that, in the mid-'60s, was both startling and exciting. Here,
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