Job Spec requirements.......is this legal?

[ICEQUEEN20]

My Daughter has an interview for an expensive ladies lingerie shop. They have specified "must be sized between 6 and 12 and be attractive". She meets these requirements, but is this legal to state this in adverts in this day and age?

[McMouse]

If she's being employed as a model then it's probably ok. If not, then it sounds dodgy.

[Mosaic]

Thing is, legal or not, what are you prepared to do about it?
A job's a job but these sound a right set, so if she doesn't get the job I wouldn't lose any sleep.
'Attractive' - means intricate facial tattoos in some cultures, strategically removed teeth in others, in possession of an invented nose in California - i wonder if they could be a bit more precise...
How about nice with customers, numerate, honest....

[ICEQUEEN20]

Shop assistant as a part-time college job.

[mccfluff]

no-idea if it helps, but we would not be able to put a rec ad in the paper with that wording

[craft1948]

Well you don't see many fat lasses in Agent Provocateur...............

[B00]

Will she be modelling them or something?!!

Does it also state must be female? Be fantastically funny if a bloke also fitted those requirements and applied :-)

[craft1948]

B00 one of the top models for ladies haute couture is actually a man........

[B00]

Yeah seen him, he's very attractive in an odd kinda way isn't he?

[tonyav]

WOT, is that right, crafty ?

[craft1948]

Yes he's called Andrej Pejic.................look him up.

[joggerjayne]

The guys in Abercrombie and Fitch are all dead horny.

[Hopkirk]

... and gay

[B00]

Why do men do that? LOL

As soon as you go "Oooo he's nice" you'll invariably get a male snorting "gay!" as a reply.

[hc4361]

It's not legal as it is gender specific.

[ICEQUEEN20]

I can understand requesting a female as its measuring ladies busts for bra fittings - but considering this Company sell sizes 6 to 20 don't understand why they insist on assistant who gets job must be size 6-12!

[sherrardk]

Is it a chain of shops? If so, one would assume that they know about discrimination, if it's a local store maybe they have over-stepped the mark?

[Prudie]

I don't know if it's legal but it must be an often used criteria - have you seen the girls who work in the cosmetics dept in Harrods for example? They're all minute stunners.

[Hopkirk]

HC, some jobs are allowed to be gender specific, and I suspect this would qualify.