Two friends say they were kicked out of a Wetherspoon pub for being 'dressed unsuitably'.
Mollie Wood, 20, says she and her friend Amy Lee, also 20, were refused service at The Back of Beyond pub in Reading.
Mollie shared a video about her experience on her TikTok, which you can watch below:
Mollie and Amy were dressed in black halter crop tops, midi skirts and trainers, with temperatures reaching a sweltering 28C.
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"We got half-way walking through the pub when a male manager shouted for us to stop," said Mollie.
"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'."
And when Mollie questioned him as to why her clothes were "inappropriate" he told her it was "because that's like a man being topless and we've been kicking topless men out all day," she said.
Mollie said she later researched the chain online and could not find any dress code, adding that she'd been served in the same pub wearing the very same top earlier that week.
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"I was just really embarrassed. We'd been in four pubs earlier that day and never been denied entry," she said.
"I told him how sexist it was to compare me to a topless man. I was wearing a top. I wasn't topless."
After discussing with Amy and calming down away from the pub, they both decided to go back and complain about the way they had been treated.
"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.
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Mollie added: "I've got a larger chest. Even if I wore a turtleneck you'd still see a very noticeable shape.
"My boobs are always going to show because I have them and there's nothing I can do about that."
Mollie said she was further shocked after sharing the video to TikTok and receiving comments from other women saying they had experienced similar things at the chain.
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One comment even claims Mollie's video has been posted in a staff Facebook group and been flooded with "backwards" comments.
In a comment, Wetherspoon spokesman 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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