Best of the Blog: For God’s Sake, Put on Some Clothes

Editor’s Note: Most writers tend to get cranky about inaccuracies in television. Madeleine Robins is no exception. This post originally appeared in 2011.

I am fond of procedural crime dramas, lawyer dramas, medical dramas, and I am pleased to note that women are well represented in the roles of FBI agents, detectives, CSIs, lawyers, reporters, doctors, mad scientists, etc. I am less pleased because so many of these characters don’t seem to have a clue how to dress.

I’m not talking dressing bad...