“You don’t look like an accountant,” said another schoolyard dad to my husband. The comment wasn’t meant to be cruel or derogatory — my husband has a mohawk that he often wears in a topknot — it was simply a statement of fact from a stranger who, like everyone else, is used to most finance professionals fitting the traditional corporate mould: a suit and tie and a short, neat haircut.
Many of us are guilty of playing into these stereotypes. While the tech and creative industries often get away with a more informal, diversified approach to personal style, other sectors aren’t so liberated. Law, accounting, finance, education and politics come to mind, where I’m sure many a
