Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/04/librarians-once-wore-this-as-t.html
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A job where they dressed for the importance of it. I like it!
Don’t think my employers would go for this.
I can see Brit Hume going for that. Without the pants.
I’ll be in my … uh…I’ll be in the stacks.
Back when I worked in a US Army library, some of the people remembered when there was a prescribed uniform for (civilian) librarians.
First of all, obviously librarians should start wearing these.
Secondly, I assume pants were optional.
With a coat like that, who needs pants?
I feel like wearing this and dancing to ACDC’s Big Balls- it would totally fit the song.
No pants, of course😄
Prince was a time traveling Spanish librarian
What, no spectacles?
Oh - I’ll take two please.
No, you want the Seinfeld episode with Marion the librarian and Bookman, the library cop.
I have never wanted to be a librarian more than I do right now. With or without pants.
Google translate suggests “embroidered jacket, sucks and panties”, whatever that means…
Libraries were once an important part of human civilization.
Now we have to argue with idiots over building libraries because they attract homeless people and make traffic in neighborhoods worse. (seriously, it was only a week ago that I had to take the opposite side in a discussion with my neighbor.)
We are here to discuss your late fees.
The lack of pants?