I know some people who prefer to be dressed up, but in fields where it’s easy to tell sense from nonsense, being smartly dressed is no substitute for being smart.

http://www.fnal.gov/pub/ferminews/FermiNews99-09-03.pdf

You can also find it by googling “fermilab fashion”.

Hm, that makes me realize something – I have never seen a woman wear a tie. You’d think a tie would be something that works /with/ cleavage.

If you own the company, why on earth would you wear something so impractical and uncomfortable? Likewise if you have genuine talent or marketable skills. Even the more important sales people (account managers in companies) generally wear casual clothes, I think it’s almost appreciated because it starts to break down barriers before you even open your mouth.

About the only people I see wearing ties on a regular basis are low-level sales drones (the ones who are trying to sell you luxury items you don’t need) and middle management.

my 2c..

I stopped using that joke after someone replied with a name.

In reality, if your students are addressing you as, say, “Chuck” or “Bob” instead of “Herr Doktor Professor”, then it doesn’t really matter if you wear a suit and tie or a wetsuit and surfboard to class every day.

Edward Larson describes a law professor who, after being fired, represented Scopes in the 1925 monkey trial.

From what I heard, Neal was somewhat excentric and became even more so with time. But the point is, wasn’t he “fired” from his office as a dean from the U at Tennessee precisely for advocating evolution?

This article gets more dubious by the minute.

^_^J.

For men, yes. The tie is important because it’s always been important; its importance makes it important.
Like math, it’s all about the definitions I suppose.