Dressing immodestly is like rolling around in manure, yes you'll get attention.. but mostly from pigs!

So true. Women is classy and sensual when they dress, walk and talk with confidence. Hey casual wink never hurt any thing.

I'm a nurse. At work I wear scrubs. At home....I sleep or try to get the grass cut or just try to do chores....so I usually don't care so much how I look.....

Thank much for all that you do Patti. It is a special person to be a nurse.

A woman who wears a low-cut blouse that shows off her cleavage will get noticed, but not in a respectable way. In businesses, workplaces, and churches, showing off cleavage is not dignified or appropriate, and it is not pretty, either. A woman who wants to look pretty will give attention to her hair and lightly applied makeup, and pay careful attention to what she wears. Men still notice prettily dressed and groomed women, but in a more respectable way.

If you want to wear the bare minimum in clothing, save it for the beach or bedroom. When you wear the bare minimum in most public places, the message that men receive from you is, "I'm for sale, and for a cheap price." That may not be the kind of message you want to broadcast.

Just as with men, your underwear is your personal business - just keep it under your clothes. If you wear a top or blouse that bares your shoulders, wear a bra that does not have a shoulder strap that shows, or you'll end up appearing like a teenage girl from a hick town.

Women can wear just about any color (including pastels), pattern, or print, and look fine in it. Still, you might want to avoid overdoing bright pink and purple and black, wearing these colors less often than other colors. They are good accent colors but an entire outfit in them can be a little hard to look at if worn daily.

Don't feel that you have to engage in competition with other women when it comes to how you dress. You don't have to be one with the tallest high-heel shoes or the one who never wears any outfit more than once. You might actually be better off if you drop out of any competitiveness in dress, and stick to more modest but still pretty time-tested styles. Some looks never go out of style, and it might be a good idea to have a few of these kinds of outfits in your wardrobe.

Remember, there's a lot more to your personality than just what you wear.

Women's clothing can be expensive. The best solution may be to build up your wardrobe gradually. Every two weeks when you get paid, or every month if you get paid monthly, get yourself into the habit of buying at least one article of clothing, until you get your wardrobe built up to serve your needs. It may be an uneven growth; maybe one payday you'll find skirts on sale and buy three of them, but have no tops to go with them; you'll just have to wait until next time to shop for those tops.

How will you know when your wardrobe is the right size to suit your needs? It may be determined by how often you do your laundry. If you do laundry every two weeks, you'll need fourteen outfits plus a few more because you may not be able to do your laundry at exactly every fourteen days, and you'll want a few special outfits and outfits to wear in the meantime, in case something becomes stained or tears or you lose a button. So, maybe you'll decide on eighteen outfits as the minimum size for your wardrobe. Pick a number you can live with.

For success? Or for dating.

Dress like your supervisor is the best generic advice out there.

So much depends on the field. If you sell clothes....wear the same types of clothes that they sell. (Wearing a suit to work at Abercrombie and Fitch....isn't going to work. T-shifts are totally appropriate.) Some places it's fine to wear jeans....some...never. Same thing for makeup. Some places it's best to do it up to the max....and some it's best to wear none.

About the only absolute don't that I know of....is don't wear overpowering perfume/ cologne.

I think I will leave this topic to others. The women I worked with were wearing what I wore. Fire retardant work shirts and denim trousers. Yes. I worked with and beside women high voltage electricians. And all of them could do their jobs, too.

Empathy, I concur with your assessment. Looking like "date bait" in the workplace is a confusion of issues.