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Be as attractive as possible

Recently, students at the University of California Irvine got a mass email instructing them how to prepare for a job interview. The email came with two photographs to help illustrate their points -- first, this incredibly detailed and specific diagram to help female students be as attractive as possible:



The before/after picture of the woman was lifted from the model's personal blog, where she posted it in response to a very specific question about the importance of wearing fitted clothes and heeled shoes if you are short or petite. It wasn't meant as a catch-all piece of advice for acing a job interview, and it was based solely on the personal experiences of a single person. The school hijacked her photo and used it to suggest that women need to be as dolled up as possible in order to get any kind of job, whereas men either don't need to be told what to wear or can just stumble into their interview wearing a winning smile and a shroud of divine fog.