Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!saquigley From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Discrimination in Stores Message-ID: <6819@watmath.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 13:00:48 EST Article-I.D.: watmath.6819 Posted: Wed Feb 8 13:00:48 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 02:00:07 EST References: <446@abnjh.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 12 A few years ago, my mother went to a particular cleaner to get her lab coat cleaned, as a friend of her had told her that it was only $3.00. When she gave the coat at the reception, the lady wrote down "dress $5.00" so my mother mentioned that she had been told it would be 3. The lady insisted it was 5, at which point my mother pointed out that this was a lab coat and not a dress. "Oh!! this will be $3.00 then". Similarly last summer, I had to go to a wedding of a friend of mine. My boyfriend and I went to the same cleaners (at different times) to get our clothes ready. He got his pants and shirt washed and pressed, and his jacket pressed, all for $5.00. I had a very simple white dress that needed washing and pressing: $6.00. There definitely is a sexist trend there.