Katy Wore Pants on a Mary Kay Stage
Written by Parsons Green
Katy Goldstein is a million dollar sales director with Mary Kay. Katy wore pants when she was speaking at Mary Kay’s recent “directors only” Leadership event. GASP! Since Mary Kay Ash started the company more than 60 years ago, there has been a strict rule requiring everyone to wear skirts at all company events.
Katy shared her thoughts on Facebook. She made history, y’all!!!!!
Ryan Rogers was ecstatic that she wore pants and even showed Katy a text he sent to his wife.
I hope everyone stays excited, because back in 2024, Katy told us that when an MLM goes to an affiliate model, the company is failing. (Hint: Mary Kay’s My Shop program is a giant step toward the affiliate model.)
Reactions to Katy’s pants were primarily positive, with a few naysayers. Pretend-retired nsd Linda Toupin shared a post from Amanda Wright. Amanda posted about her experience at Leadership where she wore a dress. She and her fellow consultants received a lot of attention for their snazzy fashion and jewelry. Linda applauds Amanda’s love of the Mary Kay traditions.
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Among the pro-skirt responses were The Tjelles:
Charlotte Staggs received a compliment from a stranger that she looked SHARP.
Jessica Schultz believes in Ryan Rogers. He would know what his grandmother would have wanted if she were still alive. Jodi Hoffmann was so distracted by those in pants she couldn’t focus or take notes!!!
Kim Frazer took a little break from drinking her Mary Kay Koolaid to praise the company she’s been a part of for 33 years. She loves that Mary Kay gives everyone the flexibility to work their business the way they see fit. (However, she will continue to wear skirts to official functions.) Irene Mantione has been with Mary Kay for 40 years. She believes in the suit. She once received a compliment at the Post Office. (Did she make a sale too?)
Natalie Reed and Susan Mau both knew Mary Kay. Pants at leadership is a slap in the face to Mary Kay.
Rose Guillemaud lives in Canada. Skirts don’t make sense in the cold weather. Heidi Sprague jumps in to mention she lives in Alaska. She will wear skirts in weather that can reach 73 degrees below zero. Mary Kay wanted her consultants in skirts.
Tammy Steele is sad and disappointed that Ryan embraces pants. Speaking at Leadership is an honor. I wonder why she didn’t speak?
Lee Ann Bonnell discussed this with her NSD Karen Ridle. Karen shared that people were so distracted by Katy’s pants that they couldn’t listen to her message.
Christine Van Ackeren thinks Mary Kay would not like the pants.
Miss Go Give Ellen Bowman Cox was not impressed, and feels it was weird that Ryan was even excited about the pants. Could you imagine her rage if Katy did her speech in Spanish?
Katrina Balding Bills adds that as a Mary Kay consultant you can choose how you represent yourself when you work your business. For those taking time to criticize pants, is your datebook filled with at least 30 faces?
Cheri Pierce has written to corporate.
Valerie Bouvier is not a fan of cleavage.
And finally, one comment stood out to me. Tara Duncan does not agree with pants. She is more focused on:
- Decline in corporate customer support.
- Lack of Samples
- The issues with MyShop
- Damaged products
Consultants should be focused on issues that are affecting their business. After all, as a Mary Kay consultant you are an independent contractor relying on a company who can change anything at anytime.
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Floppy cleavage popping out of too-low necklines? As long as it’s a dress. Skirts so short they’re a mild breeze away from a Basic Instinct moment? Go for it. Jessica Rabbit slits? Sure. Too small dresses in unflattering styles and no shapewear underneath that make the wearer look like one of those salamis with the strings tied around them? Duh, it’s a dress. Rhinestone cowboy boots and shoes that don’t even fit? As long as the outfit has a single tube around the legs.
Well-fitted, neat, professional slacks? OPEN DECLARATION OF WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Make it make sense!
One must ask…who is this dress code intending to impress? Prospective customers? Fellow sales folks? MKC?
You are not lawyers or sportscasters ladies. Respect your audience if want to be taken seriously. (This can be a real challenge in itself when peddling MLM products!)
If you are trying to bring beauty products to prospective customers in their 20s and 30s, you may want to consider styles appropriate to your audience. Wearing pretty, more trendy/classy clothing and make-up will likely go much further to gain customers than wearing a token skirt with an outfit and face-paint that makes you look out of touch.
It seems disrespectful to the attendees of these MK functions, where no customers are present, to ask them to dress so uncomfortably. It makes me ask “why”? And this is a question not asked nearly enough in MLMs like Mary Kay.
One must ask…who is this dress code intending to impress? Prospective customers? Fellow sales folks? MKC?
In the eyes of Mary Kay women there are only two kinds of people outside the MKU
1) businessmen who compliment MKBots of being “sugar sharp”
2) lower status women who gush over how wonderful MKBots are
They rarely talk about men in the service industry and never about “fellow” businesswomen. The mere idea that women can be and are successful without being in Mary Kay breaks their minds.
I would like to see Ms. Mau explain to HRH Princess Anne, the Princess Royal that she looks unprofessional in her bifurcated uniform as an admiral of the British Royal Navy.
Also, if “pantsuits are never taken seriously and that’s a professional fact”, why have they been a staple of male business fashion since the Victorian Era? Shouldn’t businessmen be rocking them skirts and dresses as well??
I’d love to see them tell former chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, at one time the third most powerful person in the world, that her pantsuits were unprofessional.
And if she wore a dress or skirt, she could have been paid 13% more!!!
Kim FrazerI also love to know that women that wear dresses and skirts earn 13% more than women who don’t.
Love some figures to back up that rather dubious factoid, Ms. Frazer.
Heidi’s outfit sounds absolutely hideous with her skirt, long johns and leg warmers. Her customers probably thought she was an idiot. Thank goodness they can just order through MyShop now and skip that weird delivery.
And moon boots! Hope they had high heels! And pantyhose under her longjohns!
Maybe it’s a question of what you’re used to, but I think that someone who goes out in WTF below zero weather just to deliver mascara is an idiot. Not wearing suitable cold weather gear just to Make A Point is double stupid.