Leave UBS's underwear alone, say readers

It seems fruitless to write much about our web poll last week, given the response readers said they couldn’t care less about UBS’s dress code.

After all, who was surprised to learn that the world’s largest Swiss bank is a bit uptight The bigger surprise in the FinanceAsia office was that perfumes and aftershaves should be applied immediately after showering. Or that, to be considered properly attired, we should knot our ties to match the “morphology” of our faces which has prompted some paranoia about the sub-conscious signals we might have been sending out previously.

In light of the online mockery of its 44-page dress code, UBS is reconsidering the advice...