Yes We Do!! Or maybe some image training. Because hek, people just don’t know how to dress for the occasion. Let’s talk about work-appropriate clothes, because at the end of the day YOU represent the company you work for.
Before I get into that I want you to think about this: why is it that everywhere I look, most women in Lebanon feel like dressing up is not complete without the excessive show of skin? Why have we not learned to embrace fashion in all forms even if it means covering up ? Why do we still insist on hanging on to lace, latex and pleather in all the wrong ways?
I get that ( with all due respect) some minimum-wage employees may not know any better than to pull out those leaving-nothing-to-the- imagination mini’s to work. Although to be fair, I’ve seen some pharmacists that look like they’re about to guest-star in a soft-porn movie with their cleavage and acrylic nails. But nowadays, you walk into the office of reputable organization ready to meet the professional director only to encounter a lady wearing the skimpiest tightest pants that detail her every single curve ( and cellulite), the steepest heels that look like she stole them from a strip-club , enough make-up to paint an army of beauty pageants, not to mention her botox-mutilated lips. And guess what?! She’s the CEO, so your expected to have a professional deal-breaking conversation with this woman while all you really wanna do is hold her hand and ask her why she would do this to herself?
Even at conferences, women here just refuse to put on a decent suit. If it is a suit it will have to be a Cavalli animal print with all the bling in her jewelry box. So I get it, we like to get a little risqué , but why is it so difficult for us to dress decently for work? Bisoux
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U don’t know where they can get lucky, so they are putting doing their best to score. Can you blame them? No seriously, I really can’t concentrate sometimes. Boobs, lips, other things are in my face.
thanks for bringing up a really controversial issue in the Lebanese fake society, when I see all this cleavage hanging around, I tend to believe that everyone’s so liberal and hungry to experiment…but then you discover that all of them are very conservative and bounded with taboos
If my assisstant comes with a suit tomorrow …. I am suing ur ass!! Hahahahaha 😀
Don’t listen to her ladies, we like skin!!! LOL
i LOOOVE this post! LOVE LOVE LOVE. It’s because my friend and I at work were discussing the same exact thing. It’s not just about showing skin either. It’s about looking professional or at least a bit put together. Some ladies either come to work in their night club clothes or they come in tennis shoes and dirty clothes. I’m not saying we have to look like business women but we should look decent.
I think you got your do’s and don’t mixed up. Girls, please DO show cleavage.
I passed by a pharmacy last night & the pharmacist was exactly as u described it, wearing the highest heels ever maybe to help her reach the upper shelves 😛
Have a good day!!
I’m not attempting to stereotype, but why is it always that the overweight girl insist on wearing tiger leather slim fit leggings?!!!
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while now..but errr..didn’t want to offend some of the people I work with. Let’s just say, I’m a woman,,and these women distract me! I can’t imagine how the men must feel! Like really, was it necessary to pull out your clubbing attire for a day at the office?
It’s not just at work to tell you the truth, we have those in Jordan too, maybe a little less extreme, but you do see girls going shopping in an LBD with heels high enough to let her predict the weather forecast so accurately, seen them in Lebanon, seen them here. Cocktail dress and koosa/khyar/basal shopping don’t really go together IMO.
I don’t believe there is anything specifically Lebanese about the excessive display of skin. I live in Paris, it’s common here; same in London, and NY.