We are selling our house and moving, so currently see quite a lot of estate agents and I have noticed an immense difference in the way mae and female Estate Agents dress.
All the male estate agents we see are really smartly dressed, suits, shirts and ties for the older ones, open necks for the younger, but polished and well presented.
This cannot be said about the female agents we deal with. I am not suggesting any specific style of dress, in any style of woman's wear you can look smart or scruffy, depending how you put it together, but many of them dress very casually and seem to make very little effort.
I write this because we went to view a house yesterday and the agent looked so scruffy, I found it very disconcerting.
She was a woman of, probably late 40s/early 50s, who affected what I suppose was meant to be a BoHo style. She was wearing a loose creased, shapeless dress with an equally shapeless wrap/jacket, whch looked as if she was wearing a nightdress and summer dressing gown and had just rolled out of bed, Heavy boots and an untidy pre-raphaelite hairdo (long hair and tight curling, no make up and a pale uninteresting face.
Her 'couldn't be bothered to get dressed this morning dress' was matched by her attitude, that by asking her to walk a couple of hundred yards from the estate agent's offices to view one of the houses the agency had for sale, was really more than she should be expected to do.
No, the house wasn't what we were looking for, but I cannot imagine any of the male estate agents we have dealt with turning up for a viewing dressed so carelessly.
