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Why don’t men ever get asked to show a little more skin?

That’s the question a downtown restaurant on Somerset Street is asking with an event on Wednesday when male servers will don dresses and heels to draw attention to what the eatery sees as discriminatory dress codes toward women working in the restaurant industry.

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“We’re going to put on some miniskirts, we’re going to buy some heels,” said Union Local 613 co-owner Ivan Gedz. “We’re going to attempt to provide service in this uniform, hopefully to demonstrate its impracticality.”

The hipster eatery has already garnered much attention on its Facebook page after announcing the event, with many praising the gesture but some criticizing the restaurant’s “shamey language” regarding a women’s choice of attire, as one poster commented.

In an email to customers on Friday, the restaurant had said “plunging necklines, skimpy skirts and high heels shouldn’t be a part of any establishment’s dress code,” and that its male staff will be “running around in the same stupid outfits women are forced to wear” during the Wednesday event.