#academic fashion

[chaotic-archaeologist]

Gotta dress a little fruity to go to the fruit stand (farmer's market)

[professorpski]

The black frock fitted her like a glove. It was made with the small square yoke and long, close sleeves, softened by a wrist-frill falling nearly to the knuckles. It outlined her figure to the waist and fell full- skirted to the ground, with a suggestion of the medieval robe. Its dull surface effaced itself not outshining the dull gleam of the academic poplin.

Yes, I want this dress, an urge I often feel when reading of fashion in fiction.

This one was described in 1936 by Dorothy L. Sayers in her novel Gaudy Night, a book in which Sayers made clear that she believed a woman of sense knew how to dress appropriately for every occasion. The occasion here was Gaudy Night when the alums of the women’s college set at Oxford University in England came back for a celebration. Her heroine, Harriet Vane, herself a writer of mysteries wears the dress. The dress is not only quietly magnificent, Vane also knows just how to wear it with the academic robe, the “academic poplin” mentioned, which she must wear over the dress, a tradition of the college.

Vane has come back as an alum and ends up trying to solve two mysteries: who is harassing the women of the college with threats and vandalism? and should she marry Lord Peter Wimsey, the impossibly charming, erudite and wealthy investigator who save her from a murder conviction? The answer to the second question seems obvious to me--yes, go marry the man!-- but Sayers takes just as long to explore the question of marriage for a woman with a professional career in 1936 as she does to uncover the mystery.

[witchesaandbitches]

Evolution of Burberry labels, 1980s to present. I love having a mix of new and vintage pieces in my wardrobe.

[gradschoolstyle]

Reader questions! How to dress like a badass at work

I’m continuing reader questions this week with a really fun academic fashion one: how to dress like a confident badass as a professor or graduate student! Continue reading Untitled

[spatheandspadix]

FANCY TIGHTS SEASON

[art-is-in-the-detail]

Wearing an off-shoulder top while working at university makes me feel like I'm exposing myself indecently. Academia is killing my style.

[peacefulandcozy]

Instagram credit: liberaureum

[rainreads]

I don't ever know, how to hold the weight of my soul.

When letting go.

But I'm falling in my own illusion,

I don't know my way back.

~Tongue Tied, Beta Radio.

Paintings:

•Issac Levitan- In the Vicinity of the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery (1880)

•John William Ashton- Evening along the Seine.

•Hendrik Pieter Koekkoek- A Faggot Gatherer in the Woods.

•Paul Gustav Fischer- Street At Evening.

[paintingispoetry]

Vittorio Reggianini, La Soirée, ca. 1880-1938

[die-rosastrasse]

Hans Zatzka

Austrian, 1859-1945

The Belly Dancer (details)

[hungryspirits]

🦇🕯️⚰️🥀🕸️

[chaotic-archaeologist]

My shirt is soft and I feel cute

[ancientsstudies]

Rodarte FALL 2016 READY-TO-WEAR.

[witchesaandbitches]

Todays outfit. I love all the woolly textures, it feels so autumnal.

[asleydi]

[cinematic-phosphenes]

Curiosity (1892) by Eugene de Blaas