Discretion

Wow - this is extreme. Advising staff on underwear and scents.

I'm not surprised a bank has issued guidelines because of the new corporate uniform. but undies and perfumes is going a tad too far. I wonder if they were worried about really bad panty lines?

When I worked for the Shangri-la, everyone was a suit. For obvious reasons. But middle management and up picked their own clothes, instead of the corporate uniform. There, I met a director who used to wear HER skirts suit so tight that you could clearly see the line of her aunty panty, from butt cheeck to butt cheek. No, no one called her down for it, despite the fact that she was dealing with the diplomatic corp ona daily basis :)

But I'll share this with you : even though I wore my own clothes, we had a dress code for all. And I mean all. Right down to the height of the court shoes we wore (nothing more than 5 cm, nothing less than 2 cm), the type of earrings we could use (single studs), the colour of our nail polish (clear or crystal), the style of our hair (break out the gels).

Discretion, eh? Where does one draw the fine line?