PhD in Clothes

The 2025 academic gift guide: Useful and thoughtful gifts for professors and grad students

It’s holiday shopping time, and if your mom is as on-the-ball as mine, your wishlist has been requested (before Halloween, actually). It’s hard to know what to want as an adult, and it’s also difficult to come up with useful, tasteful, and budget-friendly presents for others. And when those others are academics? The struggle can be real. So today, we reveal the 2025 academic gift guide. If you need gifts for professors, grad students, and your other academic besties, read on!

A week of academic outfits: What a biology PhD student wears

Welcome back to a week of academic outfits, where a stylish person in higher ed shows us what they wear! This week, Sudipta, a PhD candidate in biology, shows us her outfits and talks about balancing academic lab clothes with personal style!

Can you make your fall wishlist without peeking?

I’ve been thinking about advice I read about clothes and shopping and making my fall wishlist, and I’m thinking it’s all wrong…is it just me?

A ten day city/hiking packing list: What to pack for Madeira

This September, I was fortunate to spend 10 days in Portugal, with the first 5 days spent sightseeing in cities and the next 5 days hiking. I spent a lot of time googling what to pack for Madeira, a gorgeous island full of beautiful hiking opportunities, while balancing my packing list with Lisbon. You know I revised the packing list about 100 times before taking off. Here are my best travel hacks for doing a split-activities trip in a carry-on!

A week of academic outfits: What the dean wears

Welcome back to a week of academic outfits, where someone in higher ed shows us what they wear to work! This week, Sarah shows us some female dean fashion and talks about how dressing as a dean is different, how fashion is a form of communication, and her favorite blazers and work pants!

A week of academic outfits: What a video game studies PhD student wears!

Welcome back to a week of academic outfits, where a stylish person in higher ed shows us what they wear to work! This week, Keerthi, a PhD candidate in video and analog game studies, shows us their fashion and discusses fieldwork outfits, the best places to find androgynous basics, and how to dress “slouchy eclectic grandpa” meets “record store employee” (!)

Do the teacher closet cleanout

What is it about teacher clothes? They have taken over my closet, ballooning into an overwhelming majority of what I see when I go to get dressed. If you’re looking to do a teacher closet cleanout, here are some easy steps I’m taking to clean out my collection.

A week of academic outfits: What a marketing instructor wears!

Welcome to another week of academic outfits! This week, Frédérique, a soon-to-be marketing PhD student and instructor, shows us her outfits!

A week of academic outfits: What an assistant professor wears

Welcome back to a week of academic outfits. Each week, someone fashionable in higher ed will show us what they wear! This week, Hailey, a rhetoric and communication scholar, shows us what an assistant professor wears!

An Allbirds Canvas Pipers Review

The Allbirds Canvas Piper sneaker is a cute, sustainable option for a white everyday sneaker. As a connoisseur of wearing women’s sneakers to work, I simply had to try them. Here’s my Allbirds Canvas Pipers review–plus, I have an Allbirds discount code for you!