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Why corduroy-loving geography teachers are right on trend

Fusty, butterscotch-coloured corduroy has been deemed the height of style this season. But do real, ordnance survey-loving teachers actually wear it?

Every season, the fashion press decide en masse, and with a touch of irony, that one unlikely profession is the archetype to which we should all aspire. In spring/summer 2016, the Gucci geek-chic look of Alessandro Michelewas so often described as “librarian chic” by fashion journalists that librarians themselves started rolling their eyes. This season, all points of the fashion compass lead to geography teachers as the height of style. And specifically to their penchant for corduroy: the fusty, stiff fabric, often the colour of damp leaves.

For autumn/winter 2017, Prada sent a model down the catwalk wearing a corduroy blazer and trousers, their spaghetti-thin ridges the colour of butterscotch Angel Delight. The too-long trousers were rumpled at the bottom, asking to be caked in field-trip mud; a sign of someone who spends too long thinking about plate tectonics to have time to turn up their trews. The trend has spread like lava and can be spotted everywhere from Mulberry to Mango. It is a textile with a whiff of academia, crystallised by popular culture – from Robin Williams as John Keating in Dead Poets Society to the thinking man’s Britpop star Jarvis Cocker. It also feels very now, much-loved by Jeremy Corbyn – surely the most geography-teacher-esque of all politicians?

But do real, ordnance survey-loving geography teachers actually wear it? Martyn Reah, of Eggar’s school in Hampshire, last wore corduroy in the late 80s. Why not since? Because “C&A closed,” he says. Ginny Light, who taught geography at St Paul’s school until she recently went on maternity leave, last wore cord in the 90s – a pair of much-loved white flares. Now, says Light, she is more likely to wear a silk blouse and a big necklace, while Reah is into woollen and tweed tailoring. This, presumably, when they are not wearing fieldtrip-ready waterproof trousers.

Reah is happy that the profession is “at last, bang on trend”. Light also loves being on the fashion agenda. Even more so, she says, because it gives geography one over on history teachers: “We have always had this light animosity; at some schools, children have to make a choice between the subjects.”

Will they go meta and try the geography teacher look? Reah says yes: “I will buy some today.” Its sturdiness: “will help combat the day-to-day challenges faced in the modern classroom”. He would also “happily try some Prada samples out”. Light wouldn’t go “the whole hog – I guess no one ever wears the whole catwalk look. I’m more of a fashion follower than an innovator but I can imagine wearing it, “in moderation”. And will any of their colleagues take offence when they learn that their profession has become an ironic source of fashion inspiration? Light doesn’t think so. “On the whole, geography teachers have a good sense of humour,” she says. “Given all the jokes they face about colouring in maps for a living, they have to.”




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Kirjoitettu Wednesday 30.08.2017

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