Collin Barnes:
How would you describe your style?
“Easy like Sunday morning.”
What are your fashion staples.
Dress shirt with sleeves rolled up. It’s a must do.
Who or what inspires your style?
One part Hillsdale College history professor. One part Elvis Costello (circa “My Aim is True”). One part Joshua Homme.
Where do you like to shop?
Wilsons Leather.
What is your favorite piece of clothing?
Pants.
Has your style evolved?
In high school, I buttoned all my shirts up to the very top. I’ve relaxed since then.
Lee Cole:
How would you describe your style?
Undisheveled academic.
What are your fashion staples?
I don’t know… perhaps my navy moleskin cardigan, but largely because it was a very generous gift from my brother.
Who or what inspires your style?
Simply “appropriateness,” as dictated by the context in which the clothes are to be worn. My mother is most responsible for teaching me how to dress well.
Where do you like to shop?
I very much don’t, but — if I must — at the Somerset Mall in Metro Detroit, near where I was raised. What is your favorite piece of clothing?
Has your style evolved?
According to family photographs, when I was a little boy I wore saddle shoes. and sometimes suspend- ers and bow ties. I haven’t worn any of these in decades.
Dwight Lindley III:
How would you describe your style?
Pre-1960s grown-up.
What are your fashion staples?
Tweed and corduroy. Something colorful — tie or socks — for pop.
Who or what inspires your style?
Mostly dead people, and people who never existed in the first place. Bertie Wooster. Dickens. Daniel Deronda.
Where do you like to shop?
My wife often shops for me. Not sure where. Not a big shopper.
What is your favorite piece of clothing?
Gray herringbone jacket, a hand-me-down from my dad. Has your style evolved?
Has your style evolved?
Yes. I was rather slovenly in college: old T-shirts, cut-off pants, pigtails, that sort of thing. By the end of undergrad, I was realizing that if I dressed like a grown-up, both I and others took me more seriously, and I began to like that.
Miles Smith IV:
How would you describe your style?
I’d describe it as rustic preppy. I’m from a small city, Salisbury, in the North Carolina Piedmont, so I hope I’m a blend of earthy Appalachia and the vibrant colors of the Atlantic Sounds
What are your fashion staples?
A blazer, Khaki pants, an oxford, and loafers or boaties (what Northern folk call boat shoes). Basic Carolina preppy foundations.
Who or what inspires your style?
I guess my father, grandfather, and the old Southern lawyers, businessmen, and doctors I grew up with. I lived beside a judge, an attorney, and a physician growing up, and they all seemed to maintain this sort of simple elegance that I admired.
Where do you like to shop?
My favorite clothing store of all time is The Squire Shop, in Fort Worth where I went to grad school. Dumas in Charleston where I went to College is a close second.
What is your favorite piece of clothing?
Vineyard Vine Khakis, without a doubt.
Has your style evolved?
Not really. Always pretty preppy. I went to private school and we had uniforms, so it just became habit.
Jordan Wales:
How would you describe your style?
An early 1960s take on Edwardian, I suppose — imitating Schubert’s play within a tradition rather than Schoenberg’s invention of one. It seems fitting for the liberal arts.
What are your fashion staples?
Tweed, bowties, and — according to my students — the color orange. Brown suede bucks.
Who or what inspires your style?
To me, tweed signifies closeness to the natural world, a striv- ing for learning, and a humility concerning one’s place. At least I hope that it will remind me of this.
Where do you like to shop?
Ebay, as well as the clearance sections of Lands’ End, Brooks Brothers, J. Crew, and Nordstrom. Shoes from Allen Edmonds, via Ebay.
What is your favorite piece of clothing?
A checked tweed jacket with elbow patches and orange felt under the collar. My son likes to think that I hunt bears.
Has your style evolved?
As a college freshman, I wore jean shorts and over-sized white T-shirts. My Russian roommate said I looked like a slob, so
I eventually began to dress like Peter Pevensie from Michael Hague’s illustrations of “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.”
