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"Always Dress to Impress"

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CardgamesFTW · 29/06/2012 11:26

"Always Dress to Impress" article
I'd like to hear FWR's opinions on this!
It's not the first time I have read something like that, and while I agree that it's polite to look reasonably OK when you go out and meet someone, this stuff is always directed towards women isn't it. It seems to imply that in order to be polite, women should wear make-up even to the grocery store.

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garlicbutt · 29/06/2012 13:52

(Except Harrods!)

garlicbutt · 29/06/2012 13:52

I do agree with the irritating Liz Jones on one point: Doing makeup can be fun. That's a whole different thang from doing it as a duty.

New Yorkers are bigger on 'beauty' than Londoners, aren't they? Afaik, makeup is entirely optional in British workplaces.

FrancesFarmer · 29/06/2012 13:43

Yes, these articles remind us that we women need to self-police ourselves constantly lest we fail to achieve the (unattainable) standards set out by society at large. Bloody annoying.

MiniTheMinx · 29/06/2012 13:34

"maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny and it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny" falling off chair laughing. We all know how important destiny is, that man who provides all future happiness. Hmm

garlicbutt · 29/06/2012 13:33

Is Annette Tapert another name for Liz Jones?

blackcurrants · 29/06/2012 13:25

fixing myself up a little?

I need fixing up?

I'm not an old bloody car. I'm a human! A PERSON! I do not need 'fixing up' because I AM NOT BROKEN.

MiniTheMinx · 29/06/2012 12:58

""I CAN'T UNDERSTAND how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little, if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny and it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny," said Coco Chanel"

Enough said, Coco Chanel made money from creating vulnerability in her consumers. No feelings of inadequacy = no sale.

Very depressing.

minipie · 29/06/2012 11:40

How depressing.

I note that the women mentioned in the article are people whose careers depended (at least partly) on their looks or what they were wearing: a fashion designer, a fashion magazine writer (x 2), an actress/singer, an accessories designer, another singer.

For women in these jobs, spending hours primping and preening before leaving the house is (at least arguably) an investment in their careers, and so may be worthwhile for that reason. But for women whose jobs don't depend on their looks/fashion sense (which ought to be most jobs) it's simply a waste of valuable time.

SarkyWench · 29/06/2012 11:37

It is one of the things I like about working in a university.
Nobody gives a shit what we look like.
I find articles like this thoroughly depressing.

EatsBrainsAndLeaves · 29/06/2012 11:33

Surely its also about saying that the only way women can really impress is through their looks.

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