Reuters.com:
Mon Dec 5, 2005. CANBERRA (Reuters) - One of Australia's largest banks apologized on Monday for a 'grooming handbook' that suggested staff wear flesh-colored underwear and advised against shiny stockings because they make legs look fatter.
The grooming guide -- which also recommended that earrings should be no bigger than a small coin and that women should wear no more than two rings on each hand -- was given to retail banking staff at the Commonwealth Bank.
'The guidelines are just that -- guidelines,' bank executive Hugh Harley said in a statement. 'I apologize to any staff who may have been offended or who do not feel comfortable discussing such matters.'
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