From 'vanilla' skirt suits to 'too-tight' shirts: Female lawyers describe how it's impossible to win when it comes to professional dress codes
instructed female lawyers on what they should and shouldn't wear. In 2010, the Chicago Bar Association held a"What Not to Wear Fashion Show," where a panel of judges commented on legal-fashion faux pas, from tightly fitted suits to dark nail polish and hair in a ponytail.
"These justifications are a vestige of white-male privilege that dominates our culture," Jennifer Sellitti, a training director at the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, said."It's demeaning to see others think you can't handle yourself as a professional." "I once wore a flowy shirt that didn't show any cleavage. But a former professor looked at me and said it looked like I was trying to show off my breasts, and my opposing counsel would think that's what I was trying to do," Ashley Kincaid Eve, a civil-rights attorney, said."It floored me, and the worst thing is, it made me question myself.
"I practice in a jurisdiction where a lot of clients fortunately look like me, but I need to make sure I look different to make sure people take me seriously as a lawyer," Heather Pinckney, a managing partner at the DC firm Harden & Pinckney, said. "It's not just the delays," Jackson said on the effect dress codes can have on her work."You're basically told you're too young, too pretty — you're totally discredited."
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