Quote Originally Posted by O'Callaghan View Post
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As for beards, I have one of those too, and have never seen a civilian dress code that banned those, although I am told there are some such companies in the US. There are certainly none in England, where I originally come from, although my father told me that such restrictions did exist when he was a young man. Things do change, and hopefully for the better.
As I recall, in the 1980s or 1990s, there was an IT consultancy that did not allow beards in the UK, possibly Perot Systems or EDS but may have been someone else (little grey cells rusty!).

But I take your point.