Why don't they go the next step and exlude ugly people from buying/wearing their clothes? They wouldn't want unattractive customers tarnishing their image.
Please. It's one thing to say they have a right to hire who they want; it's another for them to cut back on the hours of "unattractive" (says who?) employees. If they're getting the job done, if their sales figures are otherwise acceptable, this is discrimination pure and simple. Let me re-emphasize that "says who?" If they have certain qualifications that must be met and they include arbitrarily defined "aesthetic" ones, they should publish the standard and be above-board about it and take their PR knocks (which they're taking anyhow), rather than trying to appear egalitarian (
) but secretly sabotaging their less than Ubermenschian salespersons.