Gunn to Profs: Coiffe it!
According to Tim Gunn, swanky Project Runway fashion guru and once-frumpy academic at the design school Parsons, step one to being a well-dressed professor is combing your hair.
Sounds easy. Gunn also suggests, in this interview from the Chronicle of Higher Education, that elbow patches aren't that bad, the right pair of jeans can communicate that important hip prof look, and backpacks are soooooo undergrad.
The three most important sartorial elements for the put-together professor, according to Gunn? A jacket, a nice pair of shoes "that don't look like they were wearing them when they were 14 years old," and a watch.
That's all very well and good, but has Gunn ever heard of female professors?
Sounds easy. Gunn also suggests, in this interview from the Chronicle of Higher Education, that elbow patches aren't that bad, the right pair of jeans can communicate that important hip prof look, and backpacks are soooooo undergrad.
The three most important sartorial elements for the put-together professor, according to Gunn? A jacket, a nice pair of shoes "that don't look like they were wearing them when they were 14 years old," and a watch.
That's all very well and good, but has Gunn ever heard of female professors?
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posted by SJB at 1:28 PM
2 Comments:
whatever kind of academic tim gunn was he was NOT a frumpy one.
Although, according to him, he was pretty stuffy back when he was an associate dean. Then they moved him over to the Fashion Department (or whatever they call it) and he reinvented himself as a hipster prof.
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