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- The Washington Post explained why Goldman Sachs' new dress code makes workwear more complicated for women.
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cbackson
I get that many people feel like skincare is a way to nourish and care for themselves, but whenever I read another article about a 10-step process involving masks and serums and double cleansing it just feels like another way for me to fail at being a woman.
Lana Del Raygun
Por que no los dos? You have to nourish and care for yourself in this particular time-consuming, expensive, looks-focused way, and you have to enjoy it, because patriarchy says so.
January
Half the time it’s enough work for me to wash my face and throw some moisturizer on before bed. I don’t know if I can manage a multistep process that also requires me to wait for the various layers to dry in between.
Anonymous
Amen, I have like a four step skincare routine (wash, toner, moisturizer and SPF or acne treatment depending on day vs night) and half the time I hit like..2? Take off makeup and crawl into bed? Or is that one?
Aggie
I integrate skincare into my routine so it isn’t time consuming. For example: oil cleanse and hop into the shower to rinse, use my clarisonic in the shower, brush my teeth while the serum/sunscreen soaks in…
However, I’m far from ten steps. I use the Wayne Goss method of mixing serums together and adding moisturizer on top. I can complete everything in five minutes tops.
Anon
I feel like the Washington Post article is blowing things way out of proportion. Not because women aren’t judged more harshly for what they wear, but because Washington Post doesn’t seem to understand that there has been a strong sense of put together business casual for women for almost twenty years. Do they really think women are going to go from suits to Athleisure? Have they never heard of a separates tailored dress and blazer which any many workplaces the equivalent to men’s khaki, button down with no tie and blazer? I just feel like women aren’t floundering and in terror about “what to wear now that we’re business casual” like the article’s tone suggest.
Now office casual wear is a whole nother ball game.
anon
Oh boy, will have to read this….WaPo probably doesn’t understand:)
anon
OK, read the article now….WaPo is trying to make a story where there is no story…”You have to decide – how do you present yourself when you’re the only women in the room?” is straight out of the 1950s. I’ll tell you how to dress – like a professional whether it’s business formal or business casual….and speak like a professional with confidence. And you’ll get respect – ask me how I know…..I’m usually the only woman in the room. This is 2019 what a bunch of baloney.
Anon
So.many.pieces in the Post have been absurd lately. I’m in DC, so they’re my hometown paper and I have an online subscription for work, but the tone is KILLING me these days. Everything is a breathless, hand-wringing crisis – too many food trucks downtown, not enough food trucks downtown, are food trucks forgetting their working class roots?, photo essay: what happens when food trucks go upscale, expose: this food truck’s owner lives comfortably in the suburbs!, food trucks are killing the grass in Farragut Square! I basically only read them anymore for the weather (their team is really good).
rosie
Do they tell me how to optimize my order at different food trucks? B/c that I would read. Preferably if the title was, “Get Both the Sweet and the Savory Pies at the Same Time.”
Anon
Completely agree. This is not a new thing or something that I see causing a ton of panic.
Casual dress
Our firm just moved to CASUAL casual and it’s more of a minefield. Call me a curmudgeon, but some younger people maybe don’t quite have the same understanding of “appropriate.” I saw a high-performing associate wearing jeans, uggs and an oversized fleece, messy hair, looking like a law student cramming for finals. Another junior showed up to a firm event with clients attending, wearing jeans and a short sleeve polo, looking all of 21. Sure, these were technically in compliance with the new dress code. But just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. /end rant