Strong fragrances are unadvisable in the presence of customers, along with garlic and cigarette breath, the code says. The solution: "Avoid garlic and onion-based dishes. Accessorizing for male staff excludes items like bracelets and earrings, but wearing timepieces is encouraged, since wristwatches suggest "reliability and great care for punctuality.
Thank God I work for myself and can dress as I please as well as enjoy a good manly stubble! Male employees are also warned about using hair dyes to mask their advancing age, since the "artificial color contrasts excessively with the actual age of your skin. UBS spokesman Jean-Raphael Fontannaz acknowledged that the code may appear very detailed and "in line with Swiss precision," but pointed out that these guidelines were originally set up for temporary staffers who may be new to working in a banking environment.
He said the dress code may be rolled out in all UBS's branches in Switzerland if the test proves successful. Fontannaz added. Write to Elena Berton at elena. All Rights Reserved. Skip to Main Content Skip to Search. News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content and other products and services.
The Wall Street Journal has the goods on the clothing guidelines for the bank that was embroiled in a nasty tax evasion scandal that lead to UBS paying the U. The UBS look book commands that employees wear suits of dark grey, black or navy blue, since these colors "symbolize competence, formalism and sobriety.
Among the "dos" and "don'ts" for women: "Make sure to touch up hair regrowth regularly if you color your hair. Neither sex is allowed to "allow their underwear to appear," wear short-sleeved shirts or, strangely, cuff links. You can see the entire brochure here courtesy of John Carney at CNBC's NetNet , who's pulled a French-language page that walks you through how to properly tie a proper tie.
Read the entire WSJ piece here. The document takes Swiss precision to a whole new level. Well, no more. The sartorially challenged, or simply clueless, finance professional now has a new dress code bible that gives definitive answers to all those pesky grooming and dressing issues.
Swiss banking giant UBS this week release its new guidelines that leave little to chance, covering employees' appearance pretty much from head to toe, from hair dyes a no-no for men to socks leave the Mickey Mouse-themed ones at home. The rules are exhaustive, ranging from fairly obvious prohibitions against tattoos, piercings and ankle chains who wears those anymore?
It's all about "irreproachable behavior," the dress code says, which "implies having an impeccable presentation. If its employees are exquisitely groomed automatons, the thinking appears to be, the profit graph will once again start trending upward.
The bank said the suggestions are only meant for a small number of employees in five pilot branches in Switzerland, but could be expanded. A UBS spokesman said staff had reacted positively to the rules. He says he can understand a company wanting to keep up its image, since perception is often king. And he points to the US Civil War, where if you didn't have the right kind of beard, you could be suspected of being with the enemy, and shot.
Women need to take it easy on the perfume, and ideally apply it after a hot shower, and then only after applying body lotion while the skin's pores are open.
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