Dress code

[Gob]

The dress was scarlet, but that, apparently, was not the problem.



When Lynda Reid arrived at the Members Stand of the Sydney Cricket Ground on the second day of the Test, wearing her carefully chosen outfit of a pink floral dress topped with lightweight trench coat, she was turned away because her hemline was too brief.

Ms Reid, a 35-year-old solicitor and mother of two, has been a member of the SCG for about 25 years. However after turning up to queue for entry at 5.30am on Sunday, only to be sent away because of the alleged inappropriateness of her dress, she is asking for her membership to be cancelled.

She will also request her two children be removed from the Members waiting list.

''I am a corporate solicitor,'' she said. ''I know what is appropriate and not. I am not some hick from wherever.''

The trouble began when a steward approached Ms Reid to inform her she would have problems getting in given the length of her dress.

''I was standing there with a group, we all laughed about it and it seemed quite ridiculous,'' she said.

Ms Reid had checked the dress code regulations the previous evening, and satisfied herself that she was compliant.

The rules for the Members Reserve - which includes the M.A. Noble Stand, the Ladies Stand and the Allianz Stadium Members Area - states that dresses should be ''of a respectable length''.

If cricket-goers wish to penetrate the inner sanctum of the Members Pavilion, dresses must be knee-length, but Ms Reid was planning on sitting in the Ladies Stand. However, when she was approached by a second steward, a woman this time, and told to leave the queue immediately to change clothes, Ms Reid began to realise her hemline had been deemed haram.

She tried bargaining with the steward, telling her she would keep her knee-length trench-coat on at all times, to prevent any possible breach of decency standards.

''[The steward] said, 'That is not acceptable because you could remove the jacket at any time without warning','' she said. Ms Reid left.

''I was so infuriated I couldn't bear it. They absolutely ruined my day.''

Her father, a platinum SCG member, made a complaint on her behalf, and received an apology, but Ms Reid has not heard from the SCG.

A spokesman for the SCG said no official complaint had yet been processed.



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/ashes-fu ... z2pf4HJC74

[rubato]

They were afraid that her clothes would distract attention from the play on the field. Of course, a clock with a second hand could do the same.


yrs,
rubato

[oldr_n_wsr]

A dress code at a cricket match!?!?!!?
The world IS going to hell in a handbasket.

[Gob]

The Sydney Cricket Ground management is unrepentant over its decision to refuse entry to a 35-year-old woman sporting an above-the-knee hemline.

Lynda Reid, a solicitor and mother-of-two, was ejected from the queue to the members stand early Sunday morning on the grounds that her floral ASOS tulip dress, which sat a few inches above the knee, was inappropriate attire.


Following the incident on day two of the fifth Ashes Test, Ms Reid wrote to the SCG Trust expressing her disappointment, and challenging its management to come up with any "coherent basis" on which they could claim her attire was not "respectable and appropriate", in the words of the official dress code.

She asked that her SCG membership be cancelled, her yearly fees refunded, and for her two children to be removed from the waiting list for membership.

Ms Reid also complained of the "absence of any shred of common politeness or civility demonstrated by your organisation".

Ms Reid received an official letter in response, granting her a fee refund and stating that her two children would be taken off the list.

The letter did not contain an apology to Ms Reid but it stated that the SCG regularly reviews its dress regulations.

"We are always open to consider Member suggestions for proposed changes," it stated.

But Ms Reid is a member no more.

"My reaction to their response and the absence of any kind of apology just reinforces that the decision I made to part company with them is the right one," she said.

"I think the problem is there is no clarity with the dress code and it seems to be arbitrarily enforced with unwritten rules made up on the spot."

"It's their club, it's their rules. I am happy to abide by them. The problem is the lack of clarity."



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion ... z2plsz8ySf

[Guinevere]

Wow, she's got nice legs, I'd think those old fogies would want them around!

[Crackpot]

It's obvious that they would distract everyone from the game