> So who is going to write the definitive dissertation on the social
> significance of clothing choices of people in the information professions?
Search me. If anyone is planning to do so, can they include a chapter on
tweed? I mean, if female archivists are stereotyped as wearing cardigans
(practical and warm in a strongroom enviroment) then the male version is
surely a stereotype in tweed?
Just thought I'd mention it
Sarah Henning
BRA (after living with the job title 'BRA archivist' for the past four
years, I can only conclude that my tweed and cardigan clad archival
predecessors really did have a sense of humour)
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