Bruce Andriatch forces me to post something about clothing for the second time in a month:

The film “Spotlight” is being celebrated for its depiction of hard-working journalists from the Boston Globe exposing decades of systemic corruption within the city’s Catholic Archdiocese.

But it also is getting rave reviews for the wardrobe designed for the actors who play the reporters and editors. Wendy Chuck, the film’s costume designer, has managed to capture the general fashion sense of print journalists which is, in a word, awful.

“It’s an unthought-about uniform,” she said in an interview with the New York Times. “It mirrors school uniforms really. It’s something you don’t think about when you dress. You don’t really care; you’ve got other things to think about that are not clothes.”

I wondered how a real-life print journalist would feel about Chuck’s approach. So I took time out from my busy schedule to sit down with myself to get some insight into the fashion choices my colleagues and I make every day.

Did you see the film?

I did. I think “All the President’s Men” has some competition when it comes to the greatest movie about newspapers ever made.

What did you think of the clothes the actors who portrayed Globe reporters wore?

Perfection. Everything was about a half-size too big, totally lacking in style and appeared to be purchased from a clearance sale in a department store basement several years earlier.

Do you have a theory about why journalists dress this way?

I’m an editor; I have a theory about everything. I like the idea that we do it because we have more important things to worry about. It’s also true that clothes cost money and we don’t have any. But I also think it’s because early in our careers, we dressed to the nines, like we were still on job interviews, because we were trying to impress people. But then we got assigned to cover cops one week, and every time we showed up to check the blotter, the detectives laughed and said we dressed more like a DA than a reporter, or asked how things were on the set of “Thirtysomething,” or whether we had a part-time job working as a mannequin at J.C. Penney, and we began to make adjustments.

Did that happen to you?

I really don’t want to talk about it.

Does this apply equally to men and women?

Oh yeah. I have walked past many female reporters and thought, “I think I have that same shirt.” And it’s not a good shirt.

Aren’t any of the people at newspapers more fashion conscious?

Publishers always seem to have nice suits. Some executive editors. The occasional ad rep.

But not reporters?

Nothing leaps to mind. One of my best friends had a Brooks Brothers suit he used to wear, if that counts. Of course he also had a pair of shoes that he kept together with duct tape.

Describe how you decide what to wear to work every day.

It’s not exactly a painstaking process. I have five or six go-to pairs of pants and about twice as many shirts. I try to get matches, but pretty close is good enough for me. I have two pairs of loafers, one for the olives, browns and khakis, one for the blues, grays and blacks. I do pretty well choosing socks that don’t draw attention to my shoes. Sometimes I wear a tie, sometimes not.

Just a guess, but if I looked in your closet, would I see that most of your shirts are button-down collars and cotton-poly blends?

Wow. That’s pretty good. To be fair, I do have a couple of 100 percent cotton shirts, but I save them for special occasions because they get pretty wrinkly and I hate taking them to the dry cleaners to be pressed.

Why don’t you iron them?

I’m not really sure where the iron is. Or how to work it.

What about wearing a sportcoat to work?

If you’re coming from a funeral, it’s OK. Otherwise, no. You usually get mocked in the newsroom if you show up wearing a sportcoat.

Sounds like high school.

It kind of is, but the insults are grammatically correct and involve more semicolons.

True or false: Pleated pants are out of style.

Do they make pants without pleats? I haven’t seen a Lands’ End catalog in a while. Can I pass?

Nevermind. What is the oldest article of clothing that you own and regularly wear?

Dark green Alligator sweater, 1988.

Why do you still wear it?

Because it fits – sort of – and it doesn’t have any holes in it.

I’m guessing that sentence says as much about print journalist fashion as any movie.

It’s like you can read my mind.