Comments on: Suit – n. – A set of matching outer garments http://wanderingeyre.com/2009/02/04/suit-n-a-set-of-matching-outer-garments/ traversing life with words Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:01:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Laura Koltutsky http://wanderingeyre.com/2009/02/04/suit-n-a-set-of-matching-outer-garments/comment-page-1/#comment-41612 Laura Koltutsky Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:57:38 +0000 http://wanderingeyre.com/?p=1291#comment-41612 Oh, how things change. I now find myself dressing better than most of my colleagues. Some of them wear jeans almost every day. I guess I fall in the middle of the dress code argument. I know as a student teacher that I was frequently thought to be a student by my future colleagues. In that environment, it was important to dress up a bit. In an academic library it seems a bit pretentious (read unnecessary) to wear business suits unless you are an administrator (read businessperson). Now that I am faculty instead of working somewhere where that was a goal, I find myself still dressing in the same type of clothes I wore at our previous POW. I asked an admin type there about faculty status and would that mean I could dress like my faculty? That to me would have been the biggest benefit of gaining that status. The response was no, we would still have to dress better than faculty. Oh, how things change. I now find myself dressing better than most of my colleagues. Some of them wear jeans almost every day. I guess I fall in the middle of the dress code argument. I know as a student teacher that I was frequently thought to be a student by my future colleagues. In that environment, it was important to dress up a bit. In an academic library it seems a bit pretentious (read unnecessary) to wear business suits unless you are an administrator (read businessperson).

Now that I am faculty instead of working somewhere where that was a goal, I find myself still dressing in the same type of clothes I wore at our previous POW. I asked an admin type there about faculty status and would that mean I could dress like my faculty? That to me would have been the biggest benefit of gaining that status. The response was no, we would still have to dress better than faculty.

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