"Ivy League" professorial style

[3orangewhips]

I'm looking for some guidelines on professorial-style of dress, meaning the "ivy league." After much consideration, I think my students might find this the least threatening style of dress that still retains authority.

It's not that I don't know what I'm going for, it's that I don't know what the stuff is called.

 

[crazyquik]

http://tailorcaid.exblog.jp/ is not a bad start.

Oxford cloth button down shirts, corduroy anything, tweed coats.

 

[CharlestonBows]

Watch Paper Chase, A Beautiful Mind & Indiana Jones' campus scenes.

 

[3orangewhips]

Indeed. Indy's daywear partly inspired this quest.

 

[3orangewhips]

It's not that I can't recognize it, it's a lack of terminology.

 

[Eagle]

Sack design suits/sport coats (be sure to include the ubiquitous navy blazer and several Tweeds)
OCBD's (oxford cloth button down shirts)
Chinos (flat front, must be ironed)
Wool Gabs (again, flat front, cuff or not...your choice!)
Wingtips, Weejuns and Topsiders (ya just gotta have some sole!)

 

[NewYorkIslander]

Try the TRAD forum at AAAC...very helpful.

 

[tpynchon]

I go to an Ivy League school and my professors have shown up to class in everything ranging from a suit to jeans, but the authority they had and the respect we gave them didn't have anything to do with the clothes they wore. In fact, I can think of one of my best dressed professors who lost the confidence of the class very early in the semester--it was a long school year for him.

 

[3orangewhips]

Luckily I have high school students.

 

[JoelF]

Originally Posted by tpynchon

I go to an Ivy League school and my professors have shown up to class in everything ranging from a suit to jeans, but the authority they had and the respect we gave them didn't have anything to do with the clothes they wore. In fact, I can think of one of my best dressed professors who lost the confidence of the class very early in the semester--it was a long school year for him.

Poor guy, judged and sentenced without mercy by a pack of Ivy undegrad dipshits. And well dressed to boot. Did he kill himself?

 

[voxsartoria]

Where do you live?

If the answer is, "nowhere," then remote shopping is your only hope.

Ye Olde Bendover Shoppe

The Castro Clothiers

My Lucky Charms Clothing

Japanese Fantasies

Banana Confederacy


- B

 

[1400PennAve]

J Press

 

[Connemara]

I would say "Go to the campus of an Ivy League school," but tragically even those universities are no longer inundated with The Trad.

 

[porcelain monkey]

A fun blog is

http://www.ivy-style.com/