PIC: JCPenney employee sent home for wearing shorts she bought at JCPenney

Sylva Stole, a now former JCPenney employee, showed up to work wearing a pair of red shorts she purchased from the career section at JCPenney. She was asked by her boss to go home and change.

She then posted about the incident on Twitter:

The department store told People magazine in a statement: "JCPenney's dress code policy for store associates prohibits the wearing of shorts of any length. This spolicy applies to both male and female associates."

However, Sylva told the same magazine that she was never informed about the no-shorts policy.

"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.'"

The original tweet now has almost 4,000 favourites and over 2,000 retweets.