Glamour Magazine: No Afro's & Dreads In The Workplace

**Cranberry** · 08-14-2007, 01:11 PM

Here's an article on what a Glamour editor thinks of natural black hair in the workplace:

Jezebel

Here's a quote from the article:

[A] recent slide show by an unidentified Glamour editor on the "Dos and Don'ts of Corporate Fashion" at a New York law firm shed some light on the topic, according to this month's American Lawyer magazine.
"First slide up: an African American woman sporting an Afro. A real no-no, announced the 'Glamour' editor to the 40 or so lawyers in the room. As for dreadlocks: How truly dreadful! The style maven said it was 'shocking' that some people still think it 'appropriate' to wear those hairstyles at the office. 'No offense,' she sniffed, but those 'political' hairstyles really have to go."

The story ends happily, with the law firm Cleary Gottlieb's managing partner Mark Walker, who wasn't at the lady luncheon, sending everyone an email pointing out the stupidty of the Glamour editor and of fashion magazines and yeah pretty much all the things we here at Jezebel hold so near and reviled.
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I can't believe we still have to deal with this. And apparently there were black women in the audience with natural hair.

KB · 08-14-2007, 01:14 PM

screw fashion magazines! :Angry:

and i hate that photo of queen latifah on the cover. that wig looks tacky on her

**Alastri** · 08-14-2007, 01:29 PM

I can't politely comment on that article.

**pisces33** · 08-26-2007, 06:20 AM

*whew*....glad my self-esteem & livelyhood dosen't depend on them

**LuvJones** · 08-26-2007, 07:01 PM

This is the funniest thing I have read all month

i love how "political" seems to be code for "anything that might tip someone off as to your status of 'black,' other than, you know, your skin."

in that spirit, i think we can all agree that claire danes needs to tone down the h@nky--it's already given the queen a nasty case of suburb hair.