LOOK AT THESE FREAKING PANTS
Aren’t they cool? Aren’t they me?
The brand is Lucy & Yak and they have a ton of funky clothing. A lot of it is quite expensive, but these were on sale and in my size so I grabbed them, haha. Can’t wait until they get here and I can rock them!
(Pic from here because I swear I grabbed a screenshot of these from the original website but I have no idea what I did with it, haha).
Yeah, No Thanks
Article (not sure if you can access it without permissions, though)
But here’s the abstract:
Dressing formally or informally as an academic may be a trade-off when it comes to managing impressions towards students, but the extant body of literature remains limited with only mixed results. This research is the first focussed investigation to examine the effects of academic dress formality on the ‘big two’ of impression formation, perceptions of warmth and competence. In a series of three controlled laboratory experiments (total N = 1361), we find dress formality to increase perceptions of competence but to decrease perceptions of warmth, which leads to ‘downstream’ effects on students’ evaluations of instructors and behavioural intentions to enrol in a course. Furthermore, we demonstrate that perceptions of competence may be subject to other information cues (success communication and discipline norms) that can mitigate negative effects associated with dress informality. Implications for higher education practitioners are provided.
Yeah, I’m never going to change the way I dress. I don’t care how “incompetent” it makes me look. I’ve always worn weird and colorful clothing. It’s part of who I am. And I will not sacrifice that part of my identity to “look the part” of an academic. It’s not like I’m showing too much skin or wearing offensive graphic tees or wearing jewelry that clinks together and makes noise when I lecture.
I wear color. I keep it bold but simple. I usually stick with two main colors (pants and shirt) and match one to my earrings and the other to my eyeshadow.
Oh yeah, I’m not toning down the eyeshadow, either.
Students can think what they want of me. I like to think I earn “looking competent” by, I don’t know, being competent. If they can’t get past the way someone’s dressed, that’s their problem.
Also, I’ve never had anyone comment on my apparel other than to say that the colors help brighten their day or that they like the way I always match or that they like that I don’t wear “blacks and grays.”
So fight me.
Want some good running (or just general exercise) clothes?
Try baleaf!
I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned them on here, but they make really high-quality clothes that are quite inexpensive. I have a pair of these fleece-lined leggings for running in the cold and they fit PERFECTLY. Not too loose, not too tight, and they have a back pocket that fits my iPod nicely.
I also have a fleece-lined long sleeve thingy I run in when it’s REALLY cold, but I don’t see that on their site anymore.
Anyway.
New Coating
So because I’m the supreme procrastinator, I hadn’t yet gotten a new coat after my orange one died in…April?
But now it’s starting to get colder and I’ll need one soon, so I finally went out and got this guy:
I feel bad that it’s down-filled, but all of the other options of that thickness also had fur on the collar/hood, so of the options, it was the best one.
RIP Good Winter Coat
So y’all know that orange coat that I brought way back when I moved here in 2014? The one that cost like $5 at Goodwill but has gotten me through eight hellish Canadian winters?
Yeah, he dead.
The zipper finally decided to BE FREE and, in my haste to repair it (since it’s still hella cold here), I made it so it couldn’t be anything BUT free and now it doesn’t zip at all.
So that blows.
But hey…eight years is a long time for me to have an article of clothing in which I walk. I am SUPER destructive with my walking clothes. You can see how bleached out this coat is. And it’s got a big hole in the back from thousands of miles of rubbing against my backpack.
RIP buddy, you were my warm winter friend.
Now I have to get a new coat before next winter, haha.
Well that was one of the quickest purchases I’ve ever made
Hi there.
So there’s this website called Amorphia Apparel which carries a bunch of t-shirt designs by Jeremy Kalgreen. I dig his style and have this shirt because I think it’s badass.
Anyway, one series of designs he does is called “Monsters of Grok” which is where he takes a band’s logo design and uses it for a name of some influential thinker from history. See David Hume (Daft Punk), Descartes (Deadmau5), and Quine (Queen) as examples.
I have been waiting forever for him to do one for Leibniz. I even got on the mailing list to be notified if/when such a design was produced.
And lo! In my inbox this morning? “Your Amorphia Apparel request is fulfilled.”
Bought it. Eagerly awaiting it. Excited.
Edit: Calgary, why does your one and only Fed-Ex place have to be on the freaking moon?
Edit 2: IT’S EVEN BETTER IN PERSON OMFG
Too Cool for No School
I want school. I is good at book learnin’.
Anyway.
This is my closet.
The left 1/3rd is pants/skirts/dresses. The right 2/3rds is shirts of various sleevage. I own one black shirt. It’s got Hume on it.
I don’t really understand why more adults don’t wear color. I mean seriously, what’s wrong with a little bright clothing to cheer up others? Back at the U of I I recall at least seven distinct times when I was told by someone that their seeing me on campus all decked out in the rainbow made their day significantly nicer.
So why don’t more adults wear bright clothing? Possible reasons:
1. It’s freaking hard to find any. The only reason I have so much bright clothing is because I’ve been stockpiling it up since junior high. There’s a red pair of pants in there I’ve had since seventh grade. I’m probably irrationally attached to my clothes collection simply because it’s taken me so long to acquire it. ‘Cause hey, they don’t make shirts like this just anywhere:
2. Bright clothing is associated with children/childhood, and is thus not “appropriate” attire for adults. Similarly, bright clothing is associated with “oddness” (maybe because careers for which adults don colors are traditionally weird and/or are occupied by strange people—you know, clowns and audacious performers and such) and thus is stigmatizing to wear.
I know it’s how we as humans judge things—first impressions and all that happy jazz—but it still bothers me when people form first impressions of others based on clothing. As long as I don’t have >40% of my boobage hanging out or let people walking behind me see my butt crack, what’s wrong with a rainbow shirt and bright lime green pants?
Clothing is definitely a form of expression, yeah, but maybe it can be viewed as an outlet of creative expression in a world where, for most people, creative expression is otherwise oppressed. If a person is supposed to be reserved and focused on a diligent schedule at their work, for example, perhaps it would be beneficial for them to express their creative side via their clothing? Crappy example, I know, but you get what I’m saying, right?
Blah. I don’t know. I’m just tired of getting evil stares just because I’m not wearing jeans and a dull shirt.
Give me my lime green and orange. I’ll be happy.
God, more of this crap?
Dear everyone,
Yes, I dress differently than you. Get over it. I know it’s hard to do, but please don’t automatically judge my character by the way I look. I try to make the effort with you. The only thing you can conclude from the fact that I dress differently from you is—surprise!—the fact that I dress differently from you! Holy shit, you mean not all peoples’ personalities are represented by their clothing?! NO WAY.
Bastards.
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