The Legitimacy of Fashion in Academia

 Fashion is relative and we all make mistakes. I think it's important to note that we here at SoOnAndSoForth are setting out to try and offer some constructive fashion criticism for the everyday graduate student. And, I hope you all enjoy this endeavor in the spirit it is intended!

That being said part of the conversation here will also be about fashion theory and its application and relevance to academics.

Head on over to threadbared and read their article about the relationship between academic and fashion.

They write, "Academics who blog about fashion and style can help lead a Social Media Revolution in fashion reportage as well as in academia by making cultural discourse a public, quotidian, and near-instantaneous activity. Rather than online lectures about fashion and style, academic fashion/style blogs are “social listening” tools (I love that term!) that collect and publicize an array of ideas about one of the most influential arms of the global culture industry, that help to transform the archaic ideas we have about “legitimate” modes of publishing and scholarly publications that “count” for tenure and promotions, and in so doing, help to reconceptualize pleasure as an active and productive element of one’s labor rather than a retreat from it."