Apparently, few questions can spark as much discussion among law professors (and fellow law prof aspirants) as those of the sartorial sort. This fall, my final law school semester, will also be my first semester of full-fledged teaching of a course (here, Principles of Macroeconomics), so I suppose I should pay close attention to this discussion.

It all started with Ethan Leib's query:

I'm sick of wearing sportcoats to look professorial on the days I teach. Anyone think it's totally inappropriate to wear jeans?

Like Prof. Yin, I don't own a pair of jeans, as 01 July marked 6 years jean-free for me, so this isn't a problem . And I really wouldn't think of wearing shorts to class (as the prof). But Prof. Althouse, apparently shocked by Yin (who wears shorts to law school, though not to teach in), thinks they're always an inappropriate choice for men. Oops.