A correspondent wrote to the FT’s Dear Lucy’s column in July about dress codes referencing a particularly ‘tight dress’ she had been advised not to wear.
In her reply, columnist Lucy Kellaway included this reference to female tax advisers:
“Depending on the country and line of business you are in, the dress may be OK – or not. It’s all pretty arbitrary. We tolerate less flesh from the person who is doing our tax returns than from the person who is cutting our hair. Stupid, really; but that’s the way it goes.”
The picture I’ve attached to this piece is of Britt Savage from the Nashville band Twang Deluxe who shredded a pile of tax forms to make the dress you see her wearing!
