A 20-year-old says she was left embarrassed after she got kicked out of a Wetherspoons pub because of her ‘inappropriate’ crop top.
Mollie Wood claimed a male manager, who was in his 30s, refused to serve her because her cleavage was showing.
She said that she and her friend Amy Lee would not be served as their attire was inappropriate. Both of them were dressed in black crop tops, trainers, and ankle-length skirts.
“We got halfway walking through the pub when a male manager shouted for us to stop,” Mollie said.
“He said ‘You can’t come in here, you’re dressed really inappropriately and it isn’t suitable. You can’t be wearing a top like that.’”
When she asked the manager as to why their clothes were ‘inappropriate’ he said it was “because that’s like a man being topless and we’ve been kicking topless men out all day.”
Mollie then shared how she and Amy asked the manager about the dress code but they could not get a straight answer.
She then checked online and said she couldn’t find anything about Wetherspoons’ dress code.
“I was just really embarrassed,” she expressed. “We’d been in four pubs earlier that day and never been denied entry. I told him how sexist it was to compare me to a topless man.
“I was wearing a top. I wasn’t topless.”
Mollie and Amy returned to the pub to complain about the way they were treated but when they raised a complaint, she claimed that she was met with more rudeness.
“He was holding the bridge of his nose and huffing, and he turned his back to us when we were speaking about it,” she said.
“I’ve got a larger chest. Even if I wore a turtleneck you’d still see a very noticeable shape,” Mollie continued.
“My boobs are always going to show because I have them and there’s nothing I can do about that.”
A spokesperson for J D Wetherspoon, Eddie Gershon, said: “Two female customers visited the Back of Beyond pub in Reading on Sunday evening at approximately 7.40pm.
“Shortly after entering, the customers were politely asked to leave the pub as, on consideration by the pub’s management team, their dress was not, in this particular case, in accordance with the company’s guidance to pubs on appropriate customer dress.
“What may be considered appropriate dress is invariably a matter of individual judgement and whilst no offence was intended to the two customers by the request to leave the pub, we support the approach of the pub’s management team in this instance.”
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