Dress code for a coffee shop?

NachoBusiness · 27-08-2015 01:01PM #1

Fitness instructor in the UK was asked to cover up or leave a Costa Coffee shop just because she was wearing her gym gear (lycra leggings and sports bra):

Personal trainer was thrown out of a Costa coffee shop because she was wearing her revealing gym kit

Davina Ward was dressed in leggings and a sports bra with a friend when a member of staff at the Sutton High Street branch in Surrey asked her to cover up or she would have to leave.

With nothing else for her to put on, furious Ms Ward said she had no option but to leave and asked for a refund for both coffees she had purchased.

The gym enthusiast, who runs her own company Davina Ward Fitness, left Costa 'embarrassed' and went to rivals Starbucks, where she was welcomed, before having a meal with her friend at Nandos.

Ms Ward, 35, said: 'I've never been so angry in my life. I'm absolutely fuming.

'Why would they let me sit down and then embarrass me by telling me to leave?'

She said: 'I spend all my life in my gym kit, that's how I get most of my business.

The Costa barista involved said she had not asked Ms Ward to leave the store, but simply to cover up.

Although there had not been any complaints made to staff, she claimed other customers had been heard talking about how the personal trainer was dressed.

The barista said: 'It's health and safety and common sense.

Personally I think this is load of baloney. I see lots of women (and men) wearing lycra gear in cafes and coffee shops. There is a gym not to far from Cineworld and I have seen many girls come in there wearing lycra bras and drink or eat in the bar. I mean, if it was a restaurant, fair enough perhaps, but a fecking coffee shop? Who cares ffs and if someone does care, let 'em care away. I'm sure they'll live.

What says you?

Birneybau · 27-08-2015 01:03PM

Wonder if she was taking selfies as well?

pickarooney · 27-08-2015 01:05PM

Health and Safety? Well then... if a barrister says it, it must be legally binding.

my teapot is orange · 27-08-2015 01:05PM

I don't think its the lycra that's the issue. It sounds like she was just wearing a sports bra on top.

Ruu · 27-08-2015 01:05PM

Health and safety? Yeah riiiiigggghhhhttt.

Thrown out though? She left of her own accord.

jenn1984 · 27-08-2015 01:07PM

She took many many selfies so I doubt she's losing sleep over it. I don't care as long as someone is covered but sports bras are for working out and wearing them on their own outside the gym kind of screams 'Look At Me'.

newacc2015 · 27-08-2015 01:07PM

Personally I wouldnt care. It beats half of the smelly people who constantly are on Dublin Bus. Would costa kick out someone who smelt like ****?I seriously doubt it

razorblunt · 27-08-2015 01:10PM

Where will they draw the line on this? Those cropped tshirts? Older women with ham hocks for arms and sleeveless tops?

It's all a bit mad.

27-08-2015 01:10PM

I wonder if the Nando's afterwards was as cheeky as her Lycra pants.

punisher5112 · 27-08-2015 01:12PM

Is she good looking???????

Nodin · 27-08-2015 01:14PM

jenn1984 wrote: »

She took many many selfies so I doubt she's losing sleep over it. I don't care as long as someone is covered but sports bras are for working out and wearing them on their own outside the gym kind of screams 'Look At Me'.

Depending on the weather, that could describe an entire streets clothing at any given time. Still no reason for putting somebody out of a coffee shop.

FelineOverLord · 27-08-2015 01:14PM

Meh, she was looking for attention and got pissed off when she didn't get the 'right' kind of attention. Yes, going out in a bra is fine for the beach or gym but not for cafes. I'll sit back and wait for the stampede of posters rushing to accuse me of 'victim blaming':D

jenn1984 · 27-08-2015 01:14PM

There she is :

http://metro.co.uk/2015/08/27/personal-trainer-thrown-out-off-costa-coffee-because-she-was-wearing-sports-bra-5363158/

donegal. · 27-08-2015 01:15PM

she wasn't asked to leave. And its hardly unreasonable to ask a woman, whos only wearing a bra, to cover up.

FelineOverLord · 27-08-2015 01:15PM

Jeez, she's got more muscular arms than a lot of guys I know.:D

Atlantic Dawn · 27-08-2015 01:16PM

If she was out of the gym and minging with stinking sweat then yes she should be covered up as it's fooking disgusting and flies will be attracted to her, if not out of the gym I don't see any problem.

NachoBusiness · 27-08-2015 01:16PM

FelineOverLord wrote: »

Meh, she was looking for attention and got pissed off when she didn't get the 'right' kind of attention. Yes, going out in a bra is fine for the beach or gym but not for cafes. I'll sit back and wait for the stampede of posters rushing to accuse me of 'victim blaming':D

You could be right but any chance the staff member was a little jealous of the attention she was getting?

FelineOverLord · 27-08-2015 01:19PM

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Any chance the staff member was a little jealous of that attention?

Possibly, but hardly envious of the God awful leggings, those should be a hanging offence. Tbh, I think her upper body is too masculine for most women to envy. Plus, we don't want to start a trend where we add skanks wearing only their underwear in public to the skanks who wear their pajamas in public.

jenn1984 · 27-08-2015 01:19PM

Sweaty girl in sports bra walks into coffee shop thinking she's the bees knees. Barista gets narked. Girls takes many many selfies to console herself and makes it into the Daily Mail. Attention wanted, attention received. Job done.

enricoh · 27-08-2015 01:20PM

Need a photo before commenting - if she's hot, its up there with the Birmingham 6 as a miscarriage of justice! If she's a minger, yeh chuck her out ta fuq!

The Backwards Man · 27-08-2015 01:20PM

Lycra.
Costa's
Starbucks
Nandos.

There's more branding in that article than in a John Wayne Western.

jenn1984 · 27-08-2015 01:21PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Lycra.
Costa's
Starbucks
Nandos.

There's more branding in that article than in a John Wayne Western.

Don't forget her personal training business also got a plug!

Boring username · 27-08-2015 01:22PM

So, a quick summary: Dolly bird provokes confrontation with coffee shop, sells story to newspapers, and gets a pic of her chest in article.

Well played.

Edit: Beaten to it by Jenn1984.

Birneybau · 27-08-2015 01:23PM

punisher5112 wrote: »

Is she good looking???????

enricoh wrote: »

Need a photo before commenting - if she's hot, its up there with the Birmingham 6 as a miscarriage of justice! If she's a minger, yeh chuck her out ta fuq!

There are loads of pics in the link

jenn1984 · 27-08-2015 01:25PM

Boring username wrote: »

So, a quick summary: Dolly bird provokes confrontation with coffee shop, sells story to newspapers, and gets a pic of her chest in article.

Well played.

Edit: Beaten to it by Jenn1984.

You snooze, you lose. Just kidding

Joe prim · 27-08-2015 01:26PM

"Davina Ward was dressed in leggings and a sports bra with a friend",

Perhaps if they both had their own clothes, instead of sharing them, they might have been dealt with more considerately?

The Backwards Man · 27-08-2015 01:29PM

As a side note, has anyone noticed the standard of Mail comments has improved immensely in the last few months? Maybe it's just they are getting so much worse elsewhere, but I usually get a chuckle out of the Mail ones these days

Boring username · 27-08-2015 01:29PM

jenn1984 wrote: »

You snooze, you lose. Just kidding

I shouldn't have stopped to fap one out to that pic :pac:

Crooked Jack · 27-08-2015 01:34PM

Exactly which part of her body was offending the server (dont be giving me that barista shite). Is it arms she finds unacceptable? Shoulders? Perhaps stomachs are what will bring about the downfall of civilisation?

Coffee shops are wanker palaces anyway

Jogathon · 27-08-2015 01:35PM

I exercise loads, and often wear my gym gear (Lycra) to coffee/lunch places. I always wear a top over my sports bra though. I wouldn't go for coffee in my normal bra...why is a sports bra different?

kylith · 27-08-2015 01:36PM

I've actual bras bigger than what she was wearing, and I wouldn't expect it to be ok to walk into a café wearing only one of them.

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