re: House women exercise their "right to bare arms" after policy change for Hse dress code

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Lurch's wife is in the back row there....

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One where women don't dress like school teachers for meetings.

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and what business world is that?

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that is "business attire" for women

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Flats are business attire?

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Flats are business attire?

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Umm, yeah.

Class is a dying thing.

MJ, you're an attorney in NYC. I feel like you are probably the most "business world" person in this thread.

What do you think?

Because I see dress like that from women at all levels in my world, but I'm in South, so

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Class is a dying thing.

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Everyone's scared to be elite.
Wear a fricking tie once in a while. And buy a nice one.

This is where I get confused. We hear every day that women want to be treated no different from the men. Our male representatives aren't allowed to show up to the capitol dressed like Larry the Cable Guy, so why do these women get special treatment when it comes to bare arms? Do they want equality or don't they?

Honestly, I'm kind of torn. Even in my world, standards have slipped for both men and women. So, while I generally would say that the women in the OP picture would trend more to the lax examples that I see, I don't think they're too unusual.

Now, in-house at clients is a completely different story. There, I would say that they're probably the norm, unless we're talking venture capital, in which case they're dressy in almost every context other than a business conference.