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When does a dress code become sexist?

Last month a new high-end sushi restaurant in Surrey came under scrutiny for publishing a dress code that asked women to wear ‘sexy black ankle-strap heels with a form-fitting top’ or ‘bodycon dresses’.

The restaurant has since apologised and changed the ‘sexist’ uniform requests.

Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour presenter Jessica Creighton spoke to Anna Sebastian, a Hospitality Consultant, and Claire Curzon, the Managing Director of Brighter Directions, a marketing and communications agency, about how attitudes towards women and dress codes have changed.

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