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"Good And Bad Hair": Because You Can Get Away From Watching This At Your Cubicle Today

Moe — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:30:19 EST

Have you noticed we haven't posted any videos today? That's what happens when you put the New Economy in the hands of the Old Economy, folks. Anyway awhile ago when we were going through all that nastiness with Glamour and Anglo beauty standards industry — the Relaxis of evil! — we found this clip from the Spike Lee production School Days and then yesterday I was watching Something New, a Christmas present from my sister. In the movie the white guy asks Sanaa Lathan to get her weave cut out and she does and then her mom, who is not exactly neo-soul on the whole issue, balks. I would get a clip of that movie for you, but this is actually funnier.

'Glamour''s Suze Yalof Schwartz Hates Black Butts, Cannot Lie

Moe — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:00:36 EDT

Remember when that Glamour editor told luncheon full of lady lawyers that like, having black hair is one thing if you're, like, Allen Iverson or Sir Mixalot or whatever, but in the corporate world you needed to keep your politics out of your hair i.e. not be black? Okay, so then, remember how our sister site Gawker outed Glamour "Suze on Style" blogger and executive fashion editor Suze Yalof Schwartz as the probable culprit? So guys! Today on "Suze On Style"

I think I've truly seen it all now - check this out: The Brazilian Butt Enhancer. Seriously, I've never met someone who wanted a larger rear, have you?

Ha ha ha ha so you're blogging to us from the year 1957, Suze? Anyway, we consulted the writer of the original American Lawyer piece, Vivia Chen, on the incident for a reaction as to, you know, WTF.

And she basically replied that she had been told that the original Glamour racist was a "junior person," as Glamour editor Cindi Leive herself claimed in a letter to the magazine, in which she identified the employee simply as "junior staffer" who, while "not a beauty editor" was nevertheless an "editor." So did Cindi simply fall on her subterfugesword to cover up for an incurable, irredeemable racist? Or does Glamour actually employ TWO separate editors who have never heard the song "Baby Got Back"?

Would You Ever Wear This? [Glamour]

'Glamour' Editor To Lady Lawyers: Being Black Is Kinda A Corporate "Don't"

Moe — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:30:00 EDT

The latest issue of Glamour advises readers use Kimble leave-in conditioner followed by a flat iron followed by a curling iron followed by spritzer and augmented with hair extensions to achieve "Mary J. Blige's loose beautiful curls." Um, how about time better spent solving the mortgage crisis? Well, a recent slide show by an unidentified Glamour editor on the "Dos and Don'ts of Corporate Fashion" at a New York law firm shed some light on the topic, according to this month's American Lawyer magazine.

First slide up: an African American woman sporting an Afro. A real no-no, announced the 'Glamour' editor to the 40 or so lawyers in the room. As for dreadlocks: How truly dreadful! The style maven said it was 'shocking' that some people still think it 'appropriate' to wear those hairstyles at the office. 'No offense,' she sniffed, but those 'political' hairstyles really have to go.

Um, hey, 'no offense' taken — my hair has been totally apolitical ever since I learned about the dangers of "Republican highlights" — but next time you tell a group of professionals they'll need to submit to extensive regular treatments if they expect to survive in the corporate world, maybe try a crowd that isn't so familiar with, like, the law?

The story ends happily, with the law firm Cleary Gottlieb's managing partner Mark Walker, who wasn't at the lady luncheon, sending everyone an email pointing out the stupidty of the Glamour editor and of fashion magazines and yeah pretty much all the things we here at Jezebel hold so near and reviled.

As for the identity of the editor, neither Cleary Gottlieb nor Condé Nast Publications Inc. (publisher of 'Glamour') would say. Indeed, almost all of the half-dozen 'Glamour' editors contacted for this story professed not to have ever set foot in a law firm. 'Cleary what?' asked several. And Walker says he has no idea whether the editor who sparked all this controversy is a well-known fashionista. Not that Walker would know, even if Anna Wintour herself crossed his path. 'Who is she?' Walker asks. 'I really don't know people in the fashion industry.'

Ah, to be a white man.