22-year- old Riam Dean is suing Abercrombie& Fitch in London on grounds that she was banished to the stockroom because her prosthetic arm did fit the hip clothing company's image.
Sales personnel are supposed to wear polo shirts. But, because Ms.Dean typically wears long sleeve shirts to cover up her prosthetic she was given permission to wear a cardigan over the polo.
A worker from what they call the "visual team", people who are employed to go round making sure the shop and its staff look up to scratch, came up to me and demanded I take the cardigan off.
'I told her, yet again, that I had been given special permission to wear it,' she recalled.
'A few minutes later my manager came over to me and said: "I can't have you on the shop floor as you are breaking the Look Policy. Go to the stockroom immediately and I'll get someone to replace you."
This is not the first time that Abercrombie has been sued for"look" discrimination.Four years ago nine employees of various ethnic backgrounds settled a $40 million lawsuit against the company after they claimed they were forced to work in the stockroom because they didn't project the right "look."
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