A young woman who happens to be TikToker says she was asked to wait outside while her car was inspected because her outfit was “inappropriate”.
Tia Woods has taken to TikTok and called out the site for shaming her outfit and allegedly telling her she should put on a shirt.
She captioned the post: “Didn’t know getting your car inspected had a dress code!!!!”
In the clip, the TikToker sarcastically said: “What I’m about to show you is potentially very dangerous for the welfare of your car so make sure your vehicle is nowhere near your phone for the next like 10 seconds.”
Woods then showed off the outfit she wore to the station and mockingly said: “Oh, what’s that? Your car is fine? Then why the f**k was a kicked out of the inspection station.”
She continued: “I actually didn’t put much thought into my clothing before I came here, to be honest. I didn’t think it mattered.”
The woman then said she had been made to stand away from the other customers while she waited for her car and ended up feeling like a ‘disgrace’.
“I’m sorry, are you inspecting [the car] or baptising it?” she questioned.
Wood’s video soon went viral on TikTok with many defending her and complimenting her outfit, claiming the staff member at the station had “jealously vibes”, whereas others thought her top looked more like a “fancy bra at best.”
In a third video, Wood claimed to be on the phone with an employee from the car inspection place recounting the incident.
“So they told you you weren’t allowed in the waiting area because of your outfit?” the other person on the phone can seemingly be heard saying. “I’m asking questions because this is the first time we’ve ever heard something like this.”
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She also calls the incident “very odd” and says that even her manager had never heard of anything like that in the entire time they had worked there. Wood adds that she doesn’t want the woman who told her to wait outside to be fired and is raising the incident to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
The woman from the inspection company apologises for what happened to Wood by saying: “I apologise for that because that is not how we do things. We don’t have a certain dress code. Everyone’s an adult.
“As long as you’re not there naked. That’s not something that we discriminate against so I’m sorry for your experience. I will get this to the right people and this will be addressed.”
Wood concludes the phone call by thanking the other woman for her help.
As Daily Dot reports, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 businesses cannot turn customers away for their race, ethnicity, religion, gender or nationality but customers’ outfits are not protected under that act.
Fellow TikTok users were equally outraged – offering their support to Tia in the comments.
One wrote: “Wait there’s nothing wrong with your outfit though?”
“They are inappropriate for that,” agreed another, while a third added, “I wear crop tops everywhere, especially when it’s hot!”
You can watch the viral TikTok videos here: Part1, Part2, Part 3
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