I am sure GH readers will agree with me when I say that we love you and the rest of the GH team for the wonderful issues you put together month after month, not what you wear or how you look!! At the workplace, please judge people on their performance and contribution to the team effort, not on how they look.
I hope Mala reads this comment and realises it's a silly concept that she's started. Choosing to wear make-up or not is a personal choice and I don't think anyone, even your boss, has a right to comment on it, unless it is a part of your job to wear make-up (eg. I firmly believe that as long as you are dressed in clean & tidy clothes, appropritae to the occasion, whether work or play, it shouldn't matter whether your clothes or your look is "trendy" or conforms to comeone else's idea of "looking good".
Organisations come up with these weird concepts from time to time, and it just ends up creating a lot of ill-will between people.Īs a society, today, we pay way too much attention to looks and glamour, rather than what a person really stands for. Regarding your latest blog on 6th May, I do not agree at all with the COO Mala Sekhri's views on fitting in with the "Lifestyle etiquette Palate". You come across as a warm and down-to-earth person, and I'm sure most GH readers identify with you and have pretty much the same concerns as you do. I'm a GH reader and thought I'd have a look at your blog since you mentioned it in the Editor's letter for May 09. Do read the Good Looks section in the magazine and tell us if it helps. And the good part is, it's so do-able now. I do think, all of us in office, and most people I know, need to make that extra effort to look their best. Sadly, I could dazzle only my colleagues (not all) since the day was spent at work. Once, I even did a Rs 2,500 super facial which ended with a plastic-y mask freezing over my face. Honestly, when month after month, we urge our readers to be their best, look their best (look good-feel good), I do feel the guilt weighing me down and rush to the salon for long overdue facials, pedicures, hair trims and so on. At Good Housekeeping we believe that there is no cutting corners in basic grooming. In real life, it's more like a big slice. Sometimes I make eye-contact and say (sternly lying) I need to do my bit too. I mostly look out of the window, at some unimportant papers on the desk, at my colleagues clothes, intermittently or throughout, when delivering lectures on the subject. So she keeps the straight face, and makes eye contact when pulling people up for shoddy, horrible-hair, make-up-less turn-outs. It also works wonderfully to have the Harper's Bazaar Editor always (yes always) in dresses, shoes and accessories, all with labels I would wear on my sleeve. Of course it may be excessive for the Cosmo Editor to report for work in a thong bikini, but she need not wear shapeless, muddy brown, salwar suits either (she actually wears little black dresses, with cleavage and all, and doesn't even keep pulling at them). The Lifestyle group COO, Mala, is adamant on 'looking the part' (meaning must fit into LEP).
I don't know about Godesses of Grooming, but I may have created Enemies for Life. Please be honest and write exactly what you think, I told the girls. This is part of an exercise I've started among the girls (how much can you do with a shirt and trousers, so no boys) in my department to get each other to spruce up and fit in with the Lifestyle Etiquette Palette (LEP). She'll have to burn her entire wardrobe barring the stray saree. For example, 'Must Never Wear short kurtas and over-tight clothes' always wears short kurtas and over-tight clothes.
I noted with interest that others in the department have been given more damning verdicts. I have just been told Must Never Wear dull colours and churidar kurtas.
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