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Summarize This Case, Professor: Slacks v. Suits

By Carolyn Elefant

The blawgosphere is replete with posts about how lawyers should or shouldn't dress. But where's the guidance for a law professor in need of advice on appropriate attire? Professor Bennett Capers took matters into his own hands at PrawfsBlawg, asking readers what he should wear on the first day of class: Given the importance of this first impression, am I the only one that obsesses at the start of the school year about what to wear on the first day of class, down to what color tie to wear? And I'm curious. Given that professors who don't naturally look professorial -- I think you know what I mean -- often have to do extra work to command respect and authority, is it mostly those professors who worry about clothing and first impressions? (In the extreme, are we the ones that take Rogers v. American Airlines and Jespersen v. Harrah's Operating Co. personally, and keep Dress for Success and its targeted variations in the back of our minds?) And here?s my final question. I'm still relatively young, and I don?t like trousers with elastic waistbands. As I get older, will I succumb and actually find elastic waistband trousers appealing? Not that...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on August 21, 2009 (boomark / email).