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Called out by boss for not dressing like a ‘lady’

I'm a 20 year old female. I'm currently an Intern for a small business company and it is my first work experience. You can literally just guess the dress code for a typical formal office clothes stuffs for workers. So, one day I met my boss as we were all about to go out for a meeting which was 20 minutes by car. We were waiting for our cars to arrive by the entrance of our building to go the meeting. He suddenly commented about how I should learn on how to be like a 'lady' from one of my female colleague. I looked at him weirdly of course? I looked at myself up and down to see what I was wearing since I was confused as to why he would say that in the first place? I was wearing a long sleeved, button down blouse with some wide pants…


I'm a 20 year old female. I'm currently an Intern for a small business company and it is my first work experience. You can literally just guess the dress code for a typical formal office clothes stuffs for workers. So, one day I met my boss as we were all about to go out for a meeting which was 20 minutes by car. We were waiting for our cars to arrive by the entrance of our building to go the meeting. He suddenly commented about how I should learn on how to be like a 'lady' from one of my female colleague.

I looked at him weirdly of course? I looked at myself up and down to see what I was wearing since I was confused as to why he would say that in the first place? I was wearing a long sleeved, button down blouse with some wide pants to pair it. I had minimal makeup on (concealer, eyeliner, lip tint, mascara), wore a necklace and a ring. Tied my hair up into a low ponytail since the wind was messing my hair up.

So i asked him what he meant, he just mentioned 'your appearance'. I had other colleagues who wore the same thing as I did too yet he didn't care to mention those to them. What should i do about this matter?

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