Fired for being too hot? Posted May 22, 2012 by Jon Henseler

A New Jersey woman claims 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’ 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.
You know how sometimes you hear people say 'ack, it's just semantics'? Well sometimes that's true and sometimes it's the difference between an awesome article and this one. Like this had all the elements going for it. Lingerie store. Hot chick. Orthodox Jews. And then you click it the link to read further and you've got Nicole Ritchie after a week long binge and In and Out Burger staring you in the face. That's what you learn there's a difference between being 'dressed too provacatively' and 'too hot.' There are plenty of people who dress too provacatively that shouldn't. That's why you see me dressed like I'm going to work on Planet Hoth every day. No one wants to see it and I know it. So these managers were just trying to do right by everyone. They no longer have people complaining about this girl's attire and she get a compliment. Win win.
PS: The really intriguing thing of this story? That Orthodox Jews were the proprietors of a lingerie store. I mean what are the chances on that? Like in everything I've read about Orthodox Judaism I never once got the vibe that they'd be hustling lingerie stores in New York. These are people that go without electricity and computers, TV, etc. I guess when you don't have to worry about updating your Twitter you can spend more time on fishnet stockings.





