“There is no uniform,” Hillbilly Hotties owner Jovanna Edge told OK Whatever in an email. “We believe in freedom of choice. Want to wear a bathrobe to work? Do it!”

But this lax uniform policy might soon change. Since August 2017, Hillbilly Hotties has been embroiled in a fight with the city of Everett over proper dress codes for their employees.

Namely, how much “anal cleft” can be shown while at work. That’s right: anal cleft.

“It’s pretty ridiculous,” Edge wrote to us in a Facebook message when we first contacted her for an interview.

Later, she sent us an email with more thoughts about the inclusion of the humorous phrase in the “bikini barista” lawsuit.

“We are still unsure what exactly is the anal cleft. A federal judge couldn’t even say for sure. It’s legally undefined. But we think it was a low level bureaucrat late at night trying to be clever in drafting this absurd law.”

“Anal cleft” entered the picture when it was included in a city ordinance that restricts what employees at fast food restaurants, food trucks, and coffee stands can wear. It requires that the “bottom one-half of the anal cleft” be covered, The Herald Net reported, and that employees wear at least a tank top and shorts.

With their anything-goes dress code, Hillbilly Hotties was an obvious target once the ordinance passed. But Edge was smart. She hired a constitutional law team that served the city of Everett “not even 3 days” after the ordinance had passed. The coffee company argued that controlling how little or how much clothing certain restaurant employees can wear was a violation of their civil rights.

“What these baristas wear shows their unique and individual tastes, their personas, their stories within,” Edge said. “These empowered women make a choice everyday they go to work. Their body is their canvas.”

The courts have so far agreed.

Fox News reports that U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman banned the uniform policy, believing that it impinged upon the bikini baristas’ First and 14th Amendment rights since it targets only women. But the ban is only temporary as the case is ongoing. Edge said she’s now for the 9th Circuit to rule on the appeal. “Now it’s up to the judges to hopefully throw this appeal case out of court and affirm Judge Pechman’s ruling.”