Kymberly Clem was kicked out of the Richmond Mall in Richmond, Kentucky Saturday for wearing a dress she bought there. As reported in the Post Chronicle, 20 year old Kymberly Clem says a security officer stopped her, demanded that she do a turn around in the dress for him to inspect her, then ordered her to leave the mall, saying her dress was too revealing and people's husbands were looking at her.
Kymberly Clem had bought the dress at that very same mall the day before the mall kicked her out for wearing it. A video of Kymberly Clem wearing the dress can be viewed here. In the video, the dress does not appear to be unusually short or revealing.
The husbands who allegedly ogled Kymberly Clem apparently were not kicked out of the mall.
With more "public" life taking place in privately run malls and even privately operated downtowns, issues like girls getting kicked out of malls for their clothing are becoming more commonplace.
The stories of shoppers kicked out of malls because of their clothing seem to fall into two groups: clothing deemed sexually provocative and clothing suggestive of gang membership.
In July 2006, Brooke Vande Hei was kicked out of a mall-Patrick Henry Mall in Newport News, Virginia- after shoppers complained that her short shorts were too revealing. Store security ordered her to pull her shorts down to cover more of her body, change clothes, or leave the mall. Initially, Vande Hei pulled her shorts down a bit to comply with security officers' demands but later they approached her again and demanded that she leave the mall. Mall security officers contended that they saw part of her "derriere."
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