Spats and cravats...

I enjoyed your article on "the sad truth about the academic wardrobe at its worst" ("What not to wear if you want to get on", June 18) immensely .

It seems, however, that the decline is even worse than we thought. At the very end of the piece, the author muses on the possibility of an academic reality TV show, and says that "there are spats, rivalries...".

Spats - what are things coming to?

Andrew Slim
Careers adviser
Nottingham Law School