A J.C Penney employee in South Dakota is questioning the company's dress code after she claims she was sent home from work for wearing shorts that were "too revealing." However, she says she bought the shorts in the store's career section!

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Sylva Stoel, 17, posted a photo of herself to Twitter wearing the red shorts she says got her sent home to change.  According to People.com,  Stoel argued that the shorts that she wore with a sleeveless blue button-down shirt were appropriate for the workplace because the store marketed them that way.

Stoel says the clothing standards unfairly target women.

"I didn't expect it to happen, but I wasn't surprised – there's been a lot of talk about unfair dress codes affecting women, and it was in the back of my mind that this could happen," Stoel tells PEOPLE.

While Stoel says that when she was hired she was aware of some dress restrictions, like no tank tops, denim, or T-shirts, a "no shorts" policy was never mentioned.

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