AE Chili shoes ok for job interview?

[Joel_Cairo]

I know the dress code for ajob interview is "conservative as all get-out", but my Chili Byrons just go so well with my tie (brooks brothers light blue with brown and yellow diagonals). For the record, the interview is for a position in Harvard Library's Scandanavian Languages division, so its well within academia, not an investment firm or anything... Should I still stick with the black Park Aves?

 

[JLibourel]

I would be a poor person to give counsel on this as I was booted out of academia and was unable to find another position.

However, based on the sartorial standards regnant in academia in my day--and from all I've heard they have declined markedly since then--I doubt if your A-E Byrons would be held against you, unless perhaps the interviewer(s) thought you were too elegant and dandified and held that against you.

The Byron in chili is indeed a handsome shoe although I seldom have occasion to wear my pair.

 

[drizzt3117]

I think you'd be fine with that.

 

[DocHolliday]

I vote black Park Aves. Brown is nice, but it's a liability you don't need. It gives you no real advantage, but it could be held against you. What color is your suit?

 

[Joel_Cairo]

Originally Posted by DocHolliday

What color is your suit?

a dark grey/brown which goes well with both shoes. Maybe I'll do right foot Byron, left foot Park Ave...

 

[NoVaguy]

black park avenues. leave the chili byrons at home.

 

[zjpj83]

You will be the only one not wearing Merrills.
Seriously, I wouldn't worry about it too much, I'm sure you will look smashing.

 

[pinchi22]

I´d wear the A-E Park Avenues to the interview, so that the interviewer can focus on the quality of you as a candidate... and the Chilis on your first day after being hired. Not that I have anything against the chili color. I have the A-E in Chile (Bradleys I believe) and love them.

Remember that Harvard´s acceptance of dissent, sartorial or otherwise, goes only so far. Just look at how it´s former president got kicked out.

 

[drizzt3117]

Originally Posted by pinchi22

I´d wear the A-E Park Avenues to the interview, so that the interviewer can focus on the quality of you as a candidate... and the Chilis on your first day after being hired. Not that I have anything against the chili color. I have the A-E in Chile (Bradleys I believe) and love them.

Remember that Harvard´s acceptance of dissent, sartorial or otherwise, goes only so far. Just look at how it´s former president got kicked out.

Lawrence Summers got forced out for something slightly different than wearing brown shoes...



like intimating women were fundamentally worse scientists than men?

 

[The Devil's Hands]

Originally Posted by drizzt3117

Lawrence Summers got forced out for something slightly different than wearing brown shoes...



like intimating women were fundamentally worse scientists than men?

I thought he got an undeserved bad rap for that one.

 

[josepidal]

It depends on what else you're wearing but those should be fine. The librarian will at best be wearing a windowpane sport coat, not a suit.

 

[pinchi22]

I thought he got an undeserved bad rap for that one.

+1. He breached a politically incorrrect topic. I think it´s a gross overstatement to say his intention was sexist. He said he only meant to open a rigorously serious academic debate, and he was booted out. I don´t necesarily agree with his point of view, but I´m willing to hear him out rather than excomunicate him. I guess we Yalies have a different point of view

I don´t believe anyone will tack a scarlet letter on you and not hire you for wearing A-Es in chili - but why take the chance?

 

[Roger]

Originally Posted by The Devil's Hands

I thought he got an undeserved bad rap for that one.
He did get excoriated for all the wrong reasons. Psychological science has been unearthing gender differences for many decades, and recent fMRI (functional MRI) imaging is confirming these differences and adding insights to their origins. Similarly, demographic findings are consistent with these laboratory results. Summers said nothing that isn't supported by the science of the day. His attackers were ideologues from a somewhat radical feminist perspective, whose asinine interpretation of his remarks made a lot of evidence-based behavioral scientists shake their heads. Unfortunately, universities today--including the Ivy-league schools, who may be the worst in this regard--have adoped a very repressive speech code that is often at odds with known facts. My understanding about the Summers case is that his dismissal was likely at least as much a function of much hostility towards him by the faculty at Harvard built up over time as it was due to those particular remarks.

 

[LabelKing]

This just shows you the deceptive quality that Ivy League schools have--and indeed their self-consciously politically correct hate speech against anything too unconventional.

The French Bibliotheque seems to have had its share of particularly inflammatory librarians. I don't think French academia would go over well here which is ironic considering French theory is still popular in American schools.