Dress Appropriately for Your Job

Is there anyone out there who has not seen the story about the female reporter in the Jet’s locker room? Have you actually looked at the pictures and read the story? Azteca reporter Ines Sainz was in the Jet’s locker room to interview Mark Sanchez – a NY Jets player of Mexican descent.

So, let’s break it down and talk about what you should never wear on the job – or at least that is my opinion! Here is a reporter who should have known better walking into a locker room full of men dressed in very low-cutting tight jeans and a revealing top with a plunging neckline. Some of the men whistled or made catcalls. Well, duh – wouldn’t you do the same thing?

Ms. Sainz should have known better – she is supposed to be a professional sports reporter and why would a professional reporter walk into a locker room dressed in any way other than professional? Ms. Sainz was interviewed on the CBS Early Show on Tuesday morning and I am sad to report that she was dressed even more provocatively with a very short skirt and another shirt with a plunging neckline that showed off attributes that are best left covered in this industry.

Now can you imagine her working in your office dressed in this manner? Could you imagine yourself coming to work dressed that way? In this case, her workplace was on the football field and in the locker room which, in my mind, equates to being even more conservative with fashion sense.

A lot of things in the workplace are less restrictive than they were in years past. Forty years ago, you wouldn’t go to work in jeans or any other casual type clothing. It was suits and dresses complete with pantyhose and heels for women. People dressed for their jobs or even for the job that they wanted vice the one that they had. Fast forward to today and still – we are more lax in our dress codes but the way Ms. Sainz dressed is still not appropriate in any workplace.

Work is not the place to be sexy. Work is work and if you want to be taken seriously, you have to dress seriously. No one is going to look at this reporter as anything other than a sex symbol because that is exactly what she portrays. Take a look at your wardrobe and decide what type of image you want to project.

By: Nancy Anderson, Staff Writer