I don’t know where you’re at but I got an eyeful in New York City a couple years ago.
People walking to work in the morning on Manhattan — women sheer and braless and obviously on their way to an office job. Multiple such women. 🤯 This is not how people dress where I come from but apparently it’s a thing now at least in The City.
Also men wearing shirt and tie and leather dress shoes with no socks and a kind of garment I can best describe as “office shorts.”
I learned on that trip that I am not a fashion person.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 51 minutes ago
I was at a business conference in Medellin, Colombia a few months ago making extreme eye contact with everything but the lady wearing a sheer top with no bra at work.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 10 minutes ago
I’m of two minds here: it’s just a body, everyone’s got one, no need to be ashamed of it or hide it; but people can also be reasonably distracted by seeing someone’s body at most workplaces (strip club bartenders excluded, for example) when they’re not expecting to, because they aren’t commonly displayed.
There’s also the factor of necessity: in extremely hot environments, people need to cover less of their body (unless they want to fully cover themselves with materials designed for it, like Bedouins, but a lot of people don’t want to do that and that’s a reasonable choice). In that situation, or in places like the beach, people should expect to see more of others’ bodies, and they are “at fault” for getting distracted.
To be clear, I think you behaved perfectly normally and well in that story. I was just thinking about the concept of nudity or near nudity at work in general.