Ugg! Not again! Pax, er, booted out of Qantas MEL business lounge.

[offshore171]

I'll just leave this here

Instagram post by Passenger Shaming • Nov 14, 2017 at 6:42pm UTC

 

[Jmrocky]

Haven't seen the boots in question, but I'm assuming they are the classic indoor type which you would somewhat associate with slippers.

My wife has a pair of Ugg's pretty similar to these that are great apres ski boots, certainly not sleepwear.

http://www.mastercraft-jewelry.com/...m-uggs-ugg-type-boots-for-women-sparkly-u.jpg

Ugg boots were confined to sleepwear 30 years ago, nowadays though uggs are everywhere.

 

[JohnK]

YMMV The older I get the less I care what others wear.

Very difficult to walk around with eyes closed.

Those loose shorts women wear that look like pyjamas and reveal everything while they are walking are truly hideous.

 

[Sdtravel]

Just returned from a trip to Japan & China with some relatives who had UGG boots on the whole time since it was cold the whole time including several CX lounges. Made me think of this thread.

 

[Flying mermaid]

Just returned from a trip to Japan & China with some relatives who had UGG boots on the whole time since it was cold the whole time including several CX lounges. Made me think of this thread.

Went to a 2 Michelin Star restaurant at a 5 star hotel in San Francisco in December. The women in the party ahead of me all had ugg boots on, although quite pretty ones. I thought of this thread as well.....

 

[kermatu]

Sorry but how is this even news?

It was December. And it’s now January. Slow news months. Thankfully nothing else to report.

 

[GoldCanyon340]

It was December. And it’s now January. Slow news months. Thankfully nothing else to report.

Yes I agree. If this and 150K points being 'reclaimed' from an account are consuming the headlines then nothing serious is happening in the world, and that's a good thing.

I will take ugg boots/toes protruding from plastic sandals over loud/boorish/obnoxious behaviour any day of the week. ADL QP used to have a phone free area at the far end of the lounge past the bar and I'd like that returned. My last visit to PER J had someone streaming the footy on their phone at full volume when they could have gone to the half empty lounge bar where the same game was on TV.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Soon to be seen in a lounge near you!!!

Fashions ugliest shoe brought to new heights

The facial expression of the guy in the first still pic oozes utter contempt for the designer who sent him out on the catwalk looking like an unkempt hobo! In fact all the models look decidedly displeased!! Would have done their careers untold amounts of good ... NOT!

 

[Denali]

Looks like hes raided mum's and mum's lumberjack boyfriends closet.

Although, hate me all you want, those boots look good. If only I was a skinny 20yr instagram "star", walking down Venice beach.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Seems Qantas has quietly made some changes to the footwear requirement in those lounges with a dress code.

Rather than any footwear with a 'toe divider' being in breach of the rules, this has been replaced with (limited to) 'rubber thongs'. Which I'm pretty sure was the original intention.

New sign here: Elizabeth Warren's Big Airport Mess and American's New 737 MAX Routes - View from the Wing and changed on the QF Club website too: Dress guidelines | Qantas

 

[Flying mermaid]

Well about time - it was ludicrous that a dressy pair of sandals that lacked a back and had a thing between the toes was classified with beach thongs! Dr FM and Ms FM will be happy....

 

[kyle]

Waiting for the day when thongs are welcome again and I might consider flying QF domestically.

 

[dylarr]

Rather than any footwear with a 'toe divider' being in breach of the rules, this has been replaced with (limited to) 'rubber thongs'. Which I'm pretty sure was the original intention.

That sign has been there since at least February this year. I decided to test it out by leaving my leather thongs on when entering the Qantas Club back then. After looking down at my feet for a few seconds, the gatekeeper asked me if they were leather and when I said yes she let me through.

 

[Denali]

That sign has been there since at least February this year. I decided to test it out by leaving my leather thongs on when entering the Qantas Club back then. After looking down at my feet for a few seconds, the gatekeeper asked me if they were leather and when I said yes she let me through.

Gives the vegans something new to protest about.

 

[Deleted member]

Again!

"Too Ugg-ly for public consumption?"

Too Ugg-ly for public consumption?

"Ugg boots have long been the footwear of choice for rock stars, models and various other VIPs. Clearly Qantas didn't get the memo."

And I suppose, they didn't get the Qantas memo or see the sign at the lounge entrance?

A walk around the western suburbs of many capital cities Australia and New Zealand will be enough to show why Ugg boots are NOT classy or fit the description of “smart casual”

 

[blackcat20]

Sensible. Was not happy to be chased out of thr lounge for wearing summer sandals.

 

[opusman]

Really I think targeting specific items of clothing is counter productive. Why don’t they just formalise what is after all the whole point of the rules, and explicitly ban bogans from the lounges. No need for complex analysis as to the position of toe dividers or whether leatherette is closer to leather or rubber when you can simply ban bogans and short circuit the whole problem. As Justice Potter Stewart might have said, there’s no need to define what a bogan is, but everyone knows one when they see one!

 

[Hvr]

A walk around the western suburbs of many capital cities Australia and New Zealand will be enough to show why Ugg boots are NOT classy or fit the description of “smart casual”

Whereas, in the trendy eastern suburbs they just wear them so well.