I have an interview for a cataloging internship at the Academy of Art library today and I am having trouble figuring out what to wear. Librarians do not dress formally for the most part. Especially librarians who work in tech services since they don’t interact with patrons. My cataloging professor wears trainers to work, for god’s sake. But it is an interview so I feel I should dress up a little.
Thing is, though, what I have to dress nicely in is a black pencil skirt and short tweed blazer. If I were interviewing a different kind of establishment, this outfit would be totally fine. But I feel weird going into talk to librarians dressed like a “Librarian”. (I find the Librarian stereotype to be really weird. Were librarians the last hold out of 1950s suit fashions? What’s with the tweedy pencil skirts?) I feel like if I walk into a library dressed like that, I need to explain that I’m not in a costume, I really dress like this in real life. What to do?