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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm really not trying to body shame. For example, I don't care if someone is wearing a two piece bikini at the pool. But its a little weird for someone to wear something you would wear to the club while cleaning a house. I'm not talking about her wearing yoga pants and sleeveless tops, I'm talking about leather pants and such.[/quote]

As a fellow Christian raised by extremely strict parents, I am asking you to have compassion on her.  Cleaning ladies are very far from the top of the social ladder. I can, as a woman of color, understand that a person doing this work might feel the need to emphasize her femininity and attractiveness.  Just this weekend the kids and I were reading in Matthew 7-8 about the criticism that the choice of Jesus to dine with known "publicans and sinners" attracted from others in the community.  I would want to build trust with her and then -- if she is a young person who may not be fully aware of the impact her sartorial choices on potential employers and others -- gently raise the issue, not out of a wish to impose my standards on her but to cause reflect in a way that may ultimately help her achieve her life goals.  [/quote]

Why are you assuming OP is Christian? Didn’t she just say conservative/religious?[/quote]

Not PP. There are very few religious groups in the US that feel like they have the social/political power to impose their modesty rules on people who aren't part of their religious tradition. Christians are one of them. Orthodox Jews living in specific predominantly Orthodox communities are another (look at female bikers being harassed in Williamsburg for an example).

Since we don't really have much of an Orthodox community in DC, it stands to reason that OP is Christian.

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DP. There is a large orthodox community in DC. I think you are confusing them with Hasidic.[/quote]
While there is an Orthodox community in the DC area, I can't imagine that anyone from this community would ask this question on DCUM. As an Orthodox Jew myself, I think they'd just ask people in their own community or on an Orthodox forum. [/quote]

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