Does your job have a dress code? I work as a nanny for an agency, and I'm noticing that I get dinged for dress code while wearing the same things that my white coworkers wear, usually long dresses or skirts. I understand that I'm a little bit curvier than they are, but I don't feel like it's fair for me to get in trouble for the way my natural body looks. How can I fight this?

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Are the parents complaining or is this only the agency? I would try to locate the feedback.

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Have you talked to your white coworkers about it? Maybe they're getting called out for dress code too and you don't know about it.

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