“T here was just one problem with the English department’s job candidate: his pants,” The Chronicle reported in an article on faculty fashion. “They were polyester, green polyester.” The candidate, otherwise qualified, didn’t get an offer. In academe, where the life of the mind prevails, does it really matter what a scholar wears? Many professors said it does, although they disagreed about why. “If you don’t know how to dress,” one asked, “what else don’t you know?”
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