A Times Square waitress was sexually harassed by co-workers after being publicly chided by her manager for looking too hot in a pair of jeans, according to a federal discrimination complaint.
Vanessa Lopez, 24, began working at Pigalle on Eighth Avenue in 2013 and says her problems started there this summer, her Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint claims.
For the World Cup, staffers were told they could dress down in jeans and their favorite jerseys. So Lopez came to work in her size-2 American Eagle jeans.
“The minute she saw me, she looked me up and down and said, ‘I don’t like the way they look on you. You’re too much,’ ” Lopez claimed.
“I felt embarrassed, like I did something wrong,” Lopez told The Post.
Later that day, Thomas announced she was canceling the casual-clothing policy because “some people’s choices in dress down is inappropriate,” the complaint reads.
“She looked at me when she said it,” Lopez said.
“Lopez had not done anything inappropriate, but Thomas had publicly implied that Ms. Lopez was dressing in a slutty fashion,” the woman’s complaint claims.
Over time, Lopez became the victim of harassment as kitchen staff started calling her slutty names and grabbing her, she says.
“I was definitely singled out,” said the Brooklyn resident, adding that her middle-aged manager may have been jealous of her.
The manager eventually told Lopez her “bubbly personality attracts the wrong attention,’’ and warned her to “tone it down,” saying she would lose her job if she brought a sexual-harassment suit, according to the complaint.
Lopez’s lawyer, Joshua Friedman, said, “The victim was blamed for all of this and then warned she would get fired if she brought a lawsuit. It doesn’t get much worse than that.”
Neither the eatery nor Thomas returned requests for comment.