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Shoes, Dresses And The Culture Of It

Valerie Steele, chief curator of the Fashionred-taffeta dress. Some, however, use their
Institute of Technology and editor of Fashionshoes to distinguish themselves from the grey
Theory: The Journal of Body, Dress & Culture,herd  of  job  applicants.
told the Chronicle of Higher Education that,
in her opinion, "Academics are still theAndrew Ross, NYU's American Studies' program
worst-dressed middle-class occupational groupdirector, is famous for the clothes he wore
in America." With a challenge like that,to accompany his wedge-heeled suede shoes to
professors fight back as hard as they can.the Modern Language Association's 1991
Princeton University's Elaine Showalter,meeting. Jane Gallop, professor of English
feminist literary critic, confessed to Vogueand comparative literature at the University
magazine that she had a passion for fashion,of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, coordinates her
and that she defended her Ph.D. dissertationfashion statements to her intellectual work,
in turquoise boots from Bologna. "For years,"as the lecture when she wore cowboy boots and
she openly admitted, "I've been trying t makesuede fringed pants to discuss Western
the life of the mind coexist with a day atcivilization.
the  mall."
And some who work in universities find that
But some, in fighting the widely heldthe shoes they wear make long-standing
stereotype that professors only wear oldalliances on campus. Diane Ballard first
dirty tweeds and flat shoes, may take theirjoined the staff of the University of
sartorial commitment too far. Emily Toth,Tennessee in 1969, and the first time she met
professor of English and women's studies atJoe Johnson (later to become UT president)
Louisiana State University, who moonlights asshe was wearing red and blue shoes with a
Ms. Mentor for the Chronicle, confessed thatblocky heel, a high-cut tongue, and a
she once saw a woman interview for anundulating swirling pattern in which the red
academic job in cowboy boots and aoverlaid the blue.



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