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HTTP:: Female Fashion at the Workplace Going Between Extremes
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In their desperate bid to avoid what is known as “office dress” and thus spark talk that they’re trying to emulate their male counterparts in everything, many women have decided to go with their feminine side and dress accordingly at the workplace. According to Maureen Rice of the Daily Mail, far from making them dress prettier and look better, they have thus fallen into the other extreme, that of dressing for work as if for a day out shopping or, even worse, clubbing with gal pals. No one should be judged by the way they dress, Rice says, yet everybody is. We live in a world where clothes say the first words before we even get the chance to reach out our hand and introduce ourselves and, for women, the task of dressing appropriately for each occasion is all the more difficult, since they will always be judged by their peers depending on their clothes first. As recent studies have shown, in an office working environment, picking the wrong shoes, or the wrong length !
of the skirt (not to mention décolletage) can have a negative impact on others’ perspective on the abilities and the professionalism of the woman in question. “The way we dress for work has become a minefield. We live in less formal times, where dress codes have been all but abandoned and the old...
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