Twenty-two year old Riam Dean sued Abercrombie & Fitch for disability discrimination and wants £20,000 in damages.
The reason? The law student claims that the clothing firm forced her to stay in the stockroom because she has a prosthetic arm that does not fit the company’s image.

Dean had worked for the branch in Savile Row. She says that she was given a handbook which dictated how the employee should look: from the way they wear their hair to the allowable length of their fingernails.

She did not think to mention the prosthetic limb during her interview. Once she has gotten the job, she says that the company allowed her to wear a cardigan over her arm.

However, after a few days, she was told that she was breaking the Look Policy of the store. She claims they made her work in the stockroom until her uniform arrives.

Abercrombie & Fitch declines to discuss Dean’s employment and describes the matter as “regrettable.”

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