Eurostar has unveiled its first gender-neutral uniform, introducing a collection featuring skirts, trousers and Dr Martens boots designed to be “interchangeable and made to fit all genders”. The Telegraph has more.
The new staff apparel range, unveiled at Eurostar’s Gare Du Nord terminal in Paris on Tuesday, features more than 50 items including graffiti-print neckerchiefs and replaces a uniform introduced more than a decade ago.
Designed by Emmanuelle Plescoff, who previously worked under French designer Christian Lacroix, the collection is “interchangeable and made to fit all genders, body types, and personal styles, empowering staff to express their individuality,” Eurostar said.
Gwendoline Cazenave, Chief Executive, called it “chic, elegant and iconic”.
The move to gender neutral clothes follows the scrapping in 2022 of ‘gendered uniforms’ by Virgin Atlantic.
When they were first introduced, the airline said it would allow staff to “wear the clothing that expresses how they identify or present themselves”, while making makeup optional and allowing crew to sport visible tattoos.
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group is aiming to compete with Eurostar from 2030 as Britain opens up the Channel Tunnel to a second operator.
A submission on the scheme said the service would be “innovative, bold and unmistakably Virgin”.
Eurostar unveiled its new uniform during Paris’s autumn fashion week and plans to introduce it among all 2,600 train and station staff immediately.
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“… first gender-neutral uniform,
“… empowering staff to express their individuality,” Eurostar said.”
Uniform: identical or consistant; an identifying outfit worn by members of an organisation.
Somebody at Eurostar needs to look in a dictionary.
As for the rag bag on display on the photo, it looks like a collection of Poundshop rejects.
Eurostar just lost another customer. Can you see it yet folks. Your upside down governments want to deny what you are seeing. Keep your heads up.
France comes into ‘the smoke’ via a deep dark passage.
That sounds so bloody sinister! 😨
I thought Ryanair had the lead in having stewardesses that are uglier than the passengers but Eurostar seems to have beaten them.
A woman is allowed to run a business ans what happens, she starts focusing on irrelevant, woke issues. Never let a woman run a business because they will drag its purpose of the rails
And who’s in charge at Virgin Atlantic and allows men to wear skirts? Oops. Debunked by reality, yet again;
“Shai Weiss is Chief Executive Officer at Virgin Atlantic and an Executive Director of the Virgin Atlantic board.”
Neckwear colour a subliminal message – Eurostar endorses Reform?
No body actually cares. They think they are getting some cheap marketing. When they are just annoying people.
Gaslighting on legs. He’s just begging for some ‘far right abuse’ from a Nazi family going camping in northern France .
I used to work in order to pay the bills not “express my individuality”
I couldn’t give a toss what they wear, it’s the bloody prices that would put me off. Looks like it’ll remain motorhome and ferry from Dover for my Euro trips. That means driving from mid-Scotland to Dover, but the cost of all that is trivial compared with rail fares for the same journey.
Travel by car.
When I saw the Virgin Atlantic advert with the transvestite flight attendant, I made a solemn promise never to board a Virgin Atlantic flight, ever.
Can somebody point me to the big deal and explain how this is newsworthy? It’s a perfectly nice, smart uniform. I like it. If they hadn’t gone and done that stupid blurb about “made to fit all genders” i wouldn’t have batted an eyelid.
The guy in the bottom photo looks good because it looks like he’s wearing a kilt, and what’s a kilt other than a ‘man skirt’? I think most men suit kilts, actually, but a bit like women, some are best off keeping their legs under wraps.🤭
Yeah I don’t really give a shit either. Trans would wear a skirt regardless, so it hasn’t done anything revolutionary. As you say, it’s also visually similar to a kilt.
Though I do like a bit more fabric about my John Thomas, I can see the appeal of airing it out 😂
Men in skirts women in trousers…big deal
(BTW, that’s all the genders covered!)
the collection is “interchangeable and made to fit all genders, body types, and personal styles, empowering staff to express their individuality,” Eurostar said.
What planet are these people on? How can a standardised uniform “empower staff to express their individuality”? Because isn’t the purpose of a uniform the creation of uniformity?
I really like the colour combo but the best part is their uniform includes DMs.🥾😁 Nice and comfy when you’re on your feet a lot, plus they last forever. Most indestructible footwear I’ve ever owned.
I use to wear dockers at secondary school until they were banned because of there connection to skinheads! 🤨
It took 15mins just to lace them up!
Great boots though
A uniform has multiple purposes, such as: making it easier for customers to identify staff, fostering a sense of belonging among staff, helping create a unified brand for the company, ensuring a minimum standard of personal presentation among staff etc. Part of the purpose of school uniforms is to cover up the economic disparities between the students’ home environments.
But students (and adults too) have always found ways of “tweaking” their uniforms to make them more individual. By offering a range of officially sanctioned variants to the uniform, the company is simply facing that reality and avoiding getting into all sorts of silly disputes about what forms of dress its employees are allowed to wear. When I was a teacher, we had a girl who wanted to wear trousers, at a time when the girls were all expected to wear skirts. I cannot imagine how much staff and parent time was taken up reaching an agreement that she could wear trousers. The uniform rules were changed for all students soon after.
Uniformity, but in a diversity sort of way.