[FBI agents] complied with a dress code enforced as much through fear of Hoover’s personal disapproval as through any written rule. They wore dark, conservative suits, white shirts, ties, and spit-polished shoes, their hair cut short and their faces closely shaved. They were subject to annual physicals and strict weight limits, though some of them complained that Hoover seemed well over the limit. “We were all taking pills to try to repress our appetite, to trim down,” [agent Burney] Threadgill recalled.
Hopped up on pills to look good to a man.
Victims of the male gaze.
source: Subversives: the FBI’s war on student radicals and Reagan’s rise to Power by Seth Rosenfeld
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