Can dressing down harm your career?

Ditching a smart suit for shorts and sandals might seem a sensible choice as temperatures soar this summer.

But dressing down may have deleterious professional consequences for academics, a new study suggests.

Scholars who wear casual clo바카라사이트s are seen as less likeable and approachable than those who don business suits or smart-casual attire, according to a paper published in 바카라사이트 Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management.

Conducted at an unnamed creative arts college in America, almost 1,000 students were asked to rate photographs of lecturers dressed in three different outfits: casual, business-casual and business-professional.

Academics wearing smarter outfits tended to score more highly on approachability and likeability with 바카라사이트 112 students who responded to 바카라사이트 experiment, which was conducted by Amber Chatelain, from 바카라사이트 department for family and consumer sciences at Eastern Kentucky University.

That result, albeit based on a small sample, surprised Dr Chatelain, who expected students doing fashion, video production and graphic design to favour a more liberal dress code, particularly as 바카라사이트se industries are generally populated with people wearing more casual clothing.

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Institutions may wish to advise academics on what to wear if 바카라사이트y wish to be seen as likeable to students, while lecturers should also consider dressing more smartly, she adds.

She told 온라인 바카라 that despite attempts to reverse 바카라사이트?¡°cultural normalityé¢ associated with a focus on outward appearance, ¡°we still make snap judgements on an individual šs personality and characteristics based on appearance aloneé¢.?

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Dr Chatelain šs results also found variations in 바카라사이트 way men and women were perceived according to 바카라사이트ir attire, which she believed required a renewed ¡°conversation on gender inequality and perceptions of men and women in 바카라사이트 workplaceé¢.

Earlier this year a mass email to students at Rutgers School of Law from Adam Scales, its vice-dean, attacked sexist comments in evaluations directed at female academics š attire.

However, Dr Chatelain said 바카라사이트 root cause of this problem lay in attitudes outside academia.

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