A German woman who wore a crop top to her local gym has said she was asked to leave because she was “distracting” other gym-users.
Marny, 22, tweeted a photo of her workout clothes alongside the caption: “Just got kicked out of my gym, because my clothes were too 'revealing' (see photo) and were confusing the men in the gym. What century are we in again? So sad.”
The young woman told the Standard she had been using the gym in her hometown Constance, Germany, for two years and was shocked by the response to her "normal" sportswear.
The tweet attracted hundreds of comments as people online shared their support for Marny.
Marny and her boyfriend were visiting the gym as normal and she had decided to wear a new workout top, which showed a few centimetres of bare skin across her stomach, she said.
While she was working out on the treadmill, Marny said one of the female trainers approached her and told her “she couldn’t train like this”.
“I was just looking at her confused because I didn’t know what she meant,” Marny said.
“She said: 'you can’t wear a sports bra.'
“I was shocked, because it wasn’t a sports bra and even if it was, why not?”
Marny said the trainer added that it was “distracting for other guests around”.
She has now told gym staff that she wants to cancel her membership and will not be coming back.
She said: “It was a bad day, I was really sad, really upset.
“I felt like I had been thrown back into the 1800s.”
She was told gym policy was that men could not wear tank tops and women could not wear their sports bras uncovered.
Marny posted the photo on Twitter to her 100 followers after the incident and was surprised by the amount of attention it received.
“There was uproar in my hometown but then I also saw people in the UK talking about it," she said.
Marny added that most people were supportive telling her to complain to the gym and to “call it out.”
But she said she only wanted to raise awareness that people were still being told what they should wear.
“All genders should be able to wear what they want to wear,” she said.
