Male Senator Creates Dress Code Just for Women

A Senator has imposed a dress code that prohibits women from wearing low-cut blouses and certain skirt lengths when addressing the Senate committee.

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Republican state senator Mitch Holmes has some pretty strong thoughts on how women from Kansas should dress. While we wish he had kept these thoughts to himself, he went ahead and imposed an 11-point dress code that explicitly prohibits women from wearing low-cut blouses and certain skirt lengths when addressing the Senate committee.

According to Topeka’s Capital Journal, Holmes said he thought of creating a male dress code—mandatory suit and tie—but decided against it, as he felt men didn’t need any instruction on how to look professional. To add even more frustration to an already annoying situation, Holmes has not included any specifications on what clothing is deemed inappropriate. "It’s one of those things that’s hard to define," he told the Journal.

As you can imagine, people are pretty pissed. Many female senators have spoken out against Holmes, arguing that a chairman doesn’t have the right to place gender-specific rules on citizens who choose to voice their thoughts to their representative committees. Between this situation and the recent outrage over model Cara Delevingne wearing sneakers to the White House, we’re hoping that politicians will spend a little more time worrying about politics and less time on what other people are wearing.

 

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