While I'm Taking an Apparently All-Day-Long Break from Writing My Dissertation
Let's discuss what one might wear to an academic job interview.
I think you are supposed to wear a suit of some sort, pants or otherwise. But, honestly, if I were to don a pants suit, I think I would feel uncomfortable. On the other hand, one is not supposed to show up to an academic job interview looking like she shops till she drops. The academic job interview, for the uninitiated (consider yourselves so so so lucky), rightly should showcase your mind. My mind, unfortunately, is TREMENDOUSLY sassy.
I saw this dress, which is marked way way down, and so it is in pants-suit realm of expense, and thought it might work nicely for an on-campus interview. A campus interview is basically an all-day-and-night affair of meeting everyone in the department, giving an academic talk, fielding a hostile Q & A after the talk, and then out to dinner and drinks. All often without recourse to your hotel room. (We're not even getting into what to wear to the first round interview, which often happens with you, trying to sound incisive, perched on a bed in a double at the Hilton wherever the MLA meeting happens to be that year).
What do we think here? With a little nipped in jacket, tights (it will be winter), and either stacked Mary Janes (as shown) or knee-high boots? It also comes in black....but that seems too Sprockets to me.
(Please keep in mind that if I continue to have many days like this one where I am fantasizing about how to dress for an interview rather than writing my dissertation....well...said interview might be a few years in coming....)
