Marsha Make-Over

Can public criticism, say from an entire nation, make you change your hair and face in a drastic way? Would you change your hair color? Would you surgically alter your face?

 Marsha Clark, attorney in the infamously televised OJ Simpson trial did. She’s now a blond who straightens her hair and wears a lot more make-up. The ladies on The View were hypothesizing that she had plastic surgery.

And who can blame her? If the entire country participates in criticising your appearance, hair, clothes and looks might you feel bad about yourself? Might you shrink away from public exposure in other cases? You might have plastic surgery. You might hire a stylist or bleach your hair.

If you are a high profile lawyer like Marsha Clark, you probably won’t ever make the mistake of thinking your brains are more important than your appearance again.

I had an appointment of a personal nature earlier this week. I was planning to go to the gym right after. I thought, well I’ll just dress for the gym, no one will see me or care what I’m wearing. On my way out people, professional people wearing business attire, came up to to me to introduce themselves. They had seen a story I had written and were approaching me as a writer.

I immediately reconsidered my sweats and old t-shirt choice. Surely they should have at least been fashionable and designer work out clothes?

Since people DO make their judgements about us based on appearance, should we just accept it and change our appearance to meet their expectations?

To say appearances don’t matter or clothes don’t matter flies in the face of the evidence. Look at Britney, Marsha Clark, Star Jones the focus  is on how they look.

I don’t have any idea what kind of new case Marsha was working on.