IT IS TO LAUGH. Virginia Postrel interviews Claudia Goldin, who introduced me to the principles of economics.

Economists dress one way, and people in the English department dress another way.

Katie at Constrained Vision picks up the thread. Economists have nothing to apologize for.

My English-major roommate often delighted in telling me how the English department was much hotter than the economics department. She was undoubtedly correct, but after reading Goldin and Postrel, I realize now that I should have told her that I prefer substance to style.

Why not go for both ... the ladies of the English department, even the younger ones, epitomize frumpy when they're not epitomizing dowdy, if they're not epitomizing butch. At least that's the case here.