the incoherent ponderer ponders the (male) scientist dress code
he likes to dress up, but no bowties
Hah! Like I should talk.
I currently stay away from the default bland slacks and not-too-boldly striped shirt uniform (no tie, natch), in favour of extreme utilitarian mottled grey t-shirt and comfortably worn jeans.
This is primarily currently driven by high odd of splatter from either of the munchkins, whether the Big Boy or his Big Girl sister.
I might reconsider and conform, as they are actually older and less likely to randomly project splodges, but I deeply don't care enough to bother.
Easier to buy 3-packs of identical t-shirts and sweats from Land's End.
Sad, I know.
In the meantime, Kayhan directs us to the "Society of Uncasually Dressed Scientists" !?!
All I can say is that he better have been doing some wiring or cable plugging when he put on that labcoat, or he'll forfeit his computational astrophysicist geek status in perpetuity...
If chemicals or wet labs were involved, we will taunt. We will.
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I thought a polo shirt and trousers was required post-tenure. Ties are for deans.
Out here on the east coast the "IBM striped shirt", though usually in more subdued tones, seem to be de rigeur.
A small core of us holds out still.
The kids are just an excuse - my next fall back position is that most academics are not actually professionals and shouldn't dress up to pretend that they are.
Extra bonus for figuring out which academics actually are professionals...
Computational astrophysicists have to worry about all those photons hitting our t-shirts and fading the color unevenly. (I assume that's how yours become gray.) Wearing a labcoat should prevent this.
I took that picture for the department "face-board" here at U-M, but it has been almost a year and they never put it up. I was also never able to get Uncasual Fridays to take off here. I wonder what Michiganders have against dressing well.
Nah, turns out your basic "formal black" t-shirts show assorted breakfast stains just a bit too well, so I get them pre-faded.
An informal local survey suggests that only people who spent a significant amount of time in California wear polo shirts, but I could be mistaken.
Isn't there an Icelandic superstition that if your clothes aren't sharp enough, a cat will attack you at Christmas?
Male astronomers in California, even postdocs, are allowed to wear a dress shirt and slacks - if they are European.