Dress Codes at Work: Does Your Boss Decide What You Can Wear?

A JCPenney's employee was sent home for violating the dress code with shorts she bought from her very own employer.

Sylva Stoel, a 17-year-old from Sioux Falls, S.D., quit her job last week when she was told to go home and change.

Sylva wore red shorts with a blue sleeveless button-down shirt which the store marketed as appropriate for work.

She took to Twitter posting a photo of the attire she had on when she was sent home, which garnered a ton of support!

JCPenney told People magazine in a statement that their dress code does not discriminate on the basis of gender. "JCPenney's dress code policy for store associates prohibits the wearing of shorts of any length. This policy applies to both male and female associates. We have reached out to the associate who blogged about this policy, but she has not returned our telephone calls thus far."

Sylvia said that she was not aware of the no shorts policy.

"They never said 'no shorts' at orientation. I never even got a handbook or anything. The manager was asked, and she said, no tank tops, spaghetti straps, absolutely no denim, and no T-shirts. And when asked for clarification she said, 'Nothing that you're falling out of.' So I thought, 'I'm not falling out of these shorts.' "

When I was 17, I was sent home to change because my skirt was too short & tight. I was a hostess at Red Robin at the time and we were required to dress up.

Have you ever been sent home from work because of your attire or maybe because of another reason?