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In 2010, it published a 44-page dress code for staff withdrawn this year that exhorted women to wear skin-coloured underwear and advised men to have monthly haircuts and trim their beards.
UBS, the big bank that can't stay out of trouble, shakes the City again 2011
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On a shelf were paints, some pieces of skin-coloured plaster, false hair, eyebrows, and moustache.
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A sniff of 'skin-coloured' Clearasil (actually only skin-coloured for those with beige skin, to whom acne was presumably the least of their dermatological problems) was the only thing more capable of rewinding the decades to that time when the world was just waiting for her to sort it out with her Doc Marten's and delusions of maturity.
Be My Enemy Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2004
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Young men in shorts leapt out on one side; girls with skin-coloured legs on the other.
Between the Acts 2004
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In women, they appear as skin-coloured lumps or swellings on the outside and inside of the vagina, and the area around the anus, while in men they appear particularly under the foreskin and around the anus.
Chapter 6 1993
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And this impression is greatly helped by the fantastical finery of his dress: sky-blue satin cravat, yards of gold chain, white French gloves, light drab great-coat lined with velvet of the same colour, invisible inexpressibles, skin-coloured and fitting like a glove, etc., etc.
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Swiss bank UBS AG is revising its dress code after getting mocked for suggesting employees wear skin-coloured underwear and avoid garlic breath.
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Reporters at The Sun thought the kooky star looked a bit like Kryten from BBC's Red Dwarf after sticking sharp skin-coloured prosthetics underneath her eyes and to each side of her forehead, making it appear like the angular lumps had been implanted.
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The guidelines recommended skin-coloured underwear for women and wristwatches for all to signal "trustworthiness and a serious concern for punctuality."
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She stomps on stage in a puffed hooded top and loses layers systematically throughout her set until she is left wearing nothing but a skin-coloured leotard with a bright light bulb on the crotch.
Virtual Festivals 2010
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