Girl gets kicked out of mall for wearing a dress she got there the day before

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moshquerade

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Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: sdifox

I am not saying "If I bought it here I can wear it here" to everything. It's a dress, not underwears or god forbid g-string for men. The dress is sold in the stores in the mall. So if the mall has such high moral standards, why is it sold there? Hypocrisy is what it is.

you are not getting it. she used the excuse that she bought it in the mall and therefore should be able to wear it in the mall. that excuse is full of holes. it is not a good excuse.
you can buy various scanty items in the mall (read: lingerie in VS) and just b/c you can buy them there doesn't mean they are fit to wear in public.

Are you saying that dress is not fit to wear in public?
Twice now I've disagreed with that. :confused:

Her answer was in response to being ejected from the mall because of the dress. Seems natural to me to say "But I bought this dress here yesterday!"

Again, it's a dress, yes, definitely short. But she is not parading in her undies.

My response to Injury was about his theory on responsibility to the stores but it is one of the stores that sold her the dress. So if his theory is true, this is just hypocrisy.
Sure, it was natural for her to say, but it wasn't a good excuse.

 

Injury

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Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: sdifox

I am not saying "If I bought it here I can wear it here" to everything. It's a dress, not underwears or god forbid g-string for men. The dress is sold in the stores in the mall. So if the mall has such high moral standards, why is it sold there? Hypocrisy is what it is.

you are not getting it. she used the excuse that she bought it in the mall and therefore should be able to wear it in the mall. that excuse is full of holes. it is not a good excuse.
you can buy various scanty items in the mall (read: lingerie in VS) and just b/c you can buy them there doesn't mean they are fit to wear in public.

Are you saying that dress is not fit to wear in public? Her answer was in response to being ejected from the mall because of the dress. Seems natural to me to say "But I bought this dress here yesterday!"

Again, it's a dress, yes, definitely short. But she is not parading in her undies.

My response to Injury was about his theory on responsibility to the stores but it is one of the stores that sold her the dress. So if his theory is true, this is just hypocrisy.

To say "Is the dress fit to wear in public" is a bad choice of words because "Public" encompasses too many places. Is it fit to wear in a club/bar? Yes. Is it fit to wear to church or an office environment? Nope.
 

sdifox

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Sep 30, 2005
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Originally posted by: Injury
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: sdifox

I am not saying "If I bought it here I can wear it here" to everything. It's a dress, not underwears or god forbid g-string for men. The dress is sold in the stores in the mall. So if the mall has such high moral standards, why is it sold there? Hypocrisy is what it is.

you are not getting it. she used the excuse that she bought it in the mall and therefore should be able to wear it in the mall. that excuse is full of holes. it is not a good excuse.
you can buy various scanty items in the mall (read: lingerie in VS) and just b/c you can buy them there doesn't mean they are fit to wear in public.

Are you saying that dress is not fit to wear in public? Her answer was in response to being ejected from the mall because of the dress. Seems natural to me to say "But I bought this dress here yesterday!"

Again, it's a dress, yes, definitely short. But she is not parading in her undies.

My response to Injury was about his theory on responsibility to the stores but it is one of the stores that sold her the dress. So if his theory is true, this is just hypocrisy.

To say "Is the dress fit to wear in public" is a bad choice of words because "Public" encompasses too many places. Is it fit to wear in a club/bar? Yes. Is it fit to wear to church or an office environment? Nope.

Are you telling me you have never seen anyone wear dress like that in a mall?
 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
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Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: sdifox

I am not saying "If I bought it here I can wear it here" to everything. It's a dress, not underwears or god forbid g-string for men. The dress is sold in the stores in the mall. So if the mall has such high moral standards, why is it sold there? Hypocrisy is what it is.

you are not getting it. she used the excuse that she bought it in the mall and therefore should be able to wear it in the mall. that excuse is full of holes. it is not a good excuse.
you can buy various scanty items in the mall (read: lingerie in VS) and just b/c you can buy them there doesn't mean they are fit to wear in public.

Are you saying that dress is not fit to wear in public?
Twice now I've disagreed with that. :confused:

Her answer was in response to being ejected from the mall because of the dress. Seems natural to me to say "But I bought this dress here yesterday!"

Again, it's a dress, yes, definitely short. But she is not parading in her undies.

My response to Injury was about his theory on responsibility to the stores but it is one of the stores that sold her the dress. So if his theory is true, this is just hypocrisy.
Sure, it was natural for her to say, but it wasn't a good excuse.

I am not talking about whether it is a good excuse, it's a logical answer. What would you have said?
 

moshquerade

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Nov 1, 2001
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Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: sdifox

I am not saying "If I bought it here I can wear it here" to everything. It's a dress, not underwears or god forbid g-string for men. The dress is sold in the stores in the mall. So if the mall has such high moral standards, why is it sold there? Hypocrisy is what it is.

you are not getting it. she used the excuse that she bought it in the mall and therefore should be able to wear it in the mall. that excuse is full of holes. it is not a good excuse.
you can buy various scanty items in the mall (read: lingerie in VS) and just b/c you can buy them there doesn't mean they are fit to wear in public.

Are you saying that dress is not fit to wear in public?
Twice now I've disagreed with that. :confused:

Her answer was in response to being ejected from the mall because of the dress. Seems natural to me to say "But I bought this dress here yesterday!"

Again, it's a dress, yes, definitely short. But she is not parading in her undies.

My response to Injury was about his theory on responsibility to the stores but it is one of the stores that sold her the dress. So if his theory is true, this is just hypocrisy.
Sure, it was natural for her to say, but it wasn't a good excuse.

I am not talking about whether it is a good excuse, it's a logical answer. What would you have said?
i wouldn't have said that. :laugh:
 
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Originally posted by: Injury
Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Unless my eyes failed me, that dress is not much higher then her knees. I would put money on there being at least one fattie there in a miniskirt (13 inch or shorter) and tube top that day....


Yes, I'm THAT bored.

The show the dress later in the news report and it doesn't look but 5-10 inches from her knees. The problem is that she's holding the dress against herself and not actually wearing it.

My big problem with the news report is that if they didn't at least feel in a similar manner, they would have asked her to put on the dress and turn around for the camera. But the truth is that it probably was too short and they make "Sally the Average Viewer" out to be the bad guy instead of "The Big Bad Mall".

One thing you have to understand about the news is that with most human interest reports like that they always try to make a hero and a villain out of the story. It makes for better ratings. By making the mall out to be some sort of villain here, they managed to make a story good enough that it's on its second page on ATOT.

As Jules said, this shouldn't have even been a story.

No question this shouldn't have been a story. Since it was though I will debate it with ya.

I don't think it's "Big Bad Mall", and in fact I think it's "Big Bad Women Whose Husbands Can't Stand Them" that is the issue. The mall was completely within its right to ask her to leave because it is private property. I agree that I can't wear everything I buy in a mall/store TO said mall/store. When it's a dress though I don't see the issue.

Lets turn this around. Does this mean when I go to the mall when I see fat ugly girls in skirts with their guts hanging out, if I have enough people go and complain about it they get kicked out as well? You want to kick her out for her dress, thats fine. Now let's apply it equally and kick all the fat gross chicks out (and dudes for that matter), because I don't want to get grossed out looking at them.

As for the pic you got, the dress is shorter then I had thought. I still would bet there was at least one other girl in a miniskirt shorter then that there that day. Put on your dress code "skirts may not be more then x inches above the knees" then if it's a problem. The issue still lies with the women who are insecure about their husbands looking at a hot chick, not the hot chick.
 

sdifox

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Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: sdifox
I am not talking about whether it is a good excuse, it's a logical answer. What would you have said?
i wouldn't have said that. :laugh:

Are you still cuffed from the other thread? ;)
 

sdifox

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Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: Engineer
Originally posted by: ADDAvenger
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Must be a slow news day...

I don't know...this thread is sure moving fast on this non-news story! :)

This is ATOT, there is no no-news day.

Like them double negatives huh? :p

I guess I should have put no-news day in quotes to avoid that trap.
 
Dec 26, 2007
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Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: Engineer
Originally posted by: ADDAvenger
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Must be a slow news day...

I don't know...this thread is sure moving fast on this non-news story! :)

This is ATOT, there is no no-news day.

Like them double negatives huh? :p

I guess I should have put no-news day in quotes to avoid that trap.

But then us grammar nazi's have nothing to nazi :p
 
Dec 26, 2007
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Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
this has nothing to do with our country. A mall is private property. End of story.

Our country is made up of the people. And since it is governed by the people for the people, when the people get pissed off because their husbands are tired of looking at saggy boobs, cellulite, and fat rolls and check out a hot chick I say it is our country that this has to do with.

 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
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Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: Engineer
Originally posted by: ADDAvenger
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Must be a slow news day...

I don't know...this thread is sure moving fast on this non-news story! :)

This is ATOT, there is no no-news day.

Like them double negatives huh? :p

I guess I should have put no-news day in quotes to avoid that trap.

But then us grammar nazi's have nothing to nazi :p

Well, I think I am correct with "there is no no-news day" since the object is no-news day.
 

waggy

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Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
this has nothing to do with our country. A mall is private property. End of story.

Our country is made up of the people. And since it is governed by the people for the people, when the people get pissed off because their husbands are tired of looking at saggy boobs, cellulite, and fat rolls and check out a hot chick I say it is our country that this has to do with.

uhm..ok
 
Dec 26, 2007
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Originally posted by: waggy
Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
this has nothing to do with our country. A mall is private property. End of story.

Our country is made up of the people. And since it is governed by the people for the people, when the people get pissed off because their husbands are tired of looking at saggy boobs, cellulite, and fat rolls and check out a hot chick I say it is our country that this has to do with.

uhm..ok

lol I love making posts that make no sense :p

Okay so it's not really dealing with this country, and I should have said "have people really come to this?"
 

Descartes

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I've seen a lot "worse" than that at the malls around here. Sometimes it's to the point where the corner of the butt actually hangs out.

I've got no complaints really, but it is distracting and can sometimes be a little awkward if you're walking around with family (whether you're looking or not). I can see that a more family-oriented mall (the kind in the 'burbs where it's mostly families with young children) might throw a few complaints though. In a mall like Lenox in Atlanta though, it's common and practically part of the people-watching experience.

I will say that it seems like women, especially younger women, have started pushing the bar a lot more over the past few years.
 

dainthomas

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Originally posted by: RESmonkey
Our mall has a stupid store called "Spencer's." The shit in there is all inappropriate and not meant to be worn in public. No one wears it to the mall, but they buy it from the mall.

I think the mall was right on this move.

This is OK because it was a somewhat hot chick. If the mall had kicked out all the disgusting and much more offensive land-whales (as would also be their right) then this would be headline news everywhere.

This is ONLY about the massive sows lumbering around the mall getting pissed off because their husbands want to nail someone who's actually fit and attractive. It has absolutely nothing to do with any phantom dress code that the management might conjure up after the fact.
 

sdifox

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Originally posted by: Descartes
I've seen a lot "worse" than that at the malls around here. Sometimes it's to the point where the corner of the butt actually hangs out.

I've got no complaints really, but it is distracting and can sometimes be a little awkward if you're walking around with family (whether you're looking or not). I can see that a more family-oriented mall (the kind in the 'burbs where it's mostly families with young children) might throw a few complaints though. In a mall like Lenox in Atlanta though, it's common and practically part of the people-watching experience.

I will say that it seems like women, especially younger women, have started pushing the bar a lot more over the past few years.

That is why I still wear my clip-on sunglasses when I am at the mall with the wife.
 

seemingly random

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She does indeed have a kentucky accent - I used to live there. She may have a lisp and/or she may have a pierced tongue.

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This isn't a lot different from the woman who was harassed by southwest airlines last year. I never did hear if she got any money from anyone.
 

SSSnail

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What I take away from all this:

1. Security guards are mostly idiots (sorry amused, if that offends you)
2. Leopard G-String are cool, on girls, or off. It's OK for them to wear it and you paying to see it.
3. Where on earth can I go to that wouldn't have some utterly ridiculous rules, or the idiots that enforce them?
4. Jealousy will undo us all.
5. I'm hungry.
6. It's good to be beautiful.