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[Hum]

(Reuters) - A New Jersey woman said on Monday that she was dismissed from a temporary job at a New York lingerie warehouse because her male employers felt she was too busty and dressed too provocatively for the workplace.

Wearing a form-fitting sequined black dress and black leather, sequin-studded boots, Lauren Odes, 29, said her Orthodox Jewish employers at Native Intimates told her that outfit and others like it were "too hot" for the warehouse.

"We should not be judged by the size of our breasts or the shape of our body,"

Odes said.

Odes's attorney, celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred, said she filed a gender and religious discrimination complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in New York.

Odes said she felt her wardrobe was appropriate for a business that sells "thongs with hearts placed in the female genital area and boy shorts for women that say 'hot' in the buttocks area."

Media photographers climbed on chairs and crashed into each other as Odes held a pose and Allred held up a series of purple, black and brown outfits she said also led to the woman's dismissal.

Odes said that on successive days during her week-long employment in late April she was warned that her attire was too alluring, that her breasts should be taped down to make them look smaller, and that she was asked to wear a red bathrobe to cover one outfit.

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[Authentic X]

Looks like a transvestite lol

[+Phouchg]

Yeah, well, Freud was right. Sexual repression is the key to almost all problems in society. Especially stupid ones like these.

[+-T-]

If that's the reason, sue for unfair dismissal as clearly, not hot

[Dot Matrix]

[+McCordRm]

Wait a second...
Are we mis-interpreting the comment? Warehouse work, and she's wearing a dress and leather. Too
hot could mean temperature. Maybe she was too stinky. heh

[TRC]

[ylcard]

Jews have this issue with decency, they require their employees to wear something that isn't showing off their bodies, not a bloody Burqa, but still.

Every work place can set its own regulations regarding clothing.

Plus she's SO not hot, she is borderline fugly, I wouldn't touch her with a laser dot.

[Dan~]

She has big arms! Yer she wasn't fired for being too hot, I think she/it just wants to use that in court but will fail

[Hell-In-A-Handbasket]

It was the warehouse, not the sales floor

[QUAD2500K]

kinda reminds me of my ex g/f

[moloko]

So where is the hot chick that got fired?

[Hum]

-T-, on 22 May 2012 - 01:45, said:

If that's the reason, sue for unfair dismissal as clearly, not hot

Her lawyer looks far worse.

Edited her out.

[Charisma]

If they really told her to tape down her boobs to make them look smaller, that's over the line and she may have a case. But the rest of it? Even if it is a lingerie store, they're allowed to set rules about what employees can wear, and it's still a business. I find it really hard to believe the media was falling all over themselves to take photos of her anyway O_o She's not famous, and not ugly, but not smoking hot either.

[nik louch]

1) She's not hot.

2) She's not been fired for "being hot", "her body" or "religious reasons" but rather "how she dressed in her workplace".