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News New Changes Coming to the Disney Look 2021
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Sirwalterraleigh
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Good
SaucyBoy
Well-Known Member
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Hopefully this is indeed true. I'm super supportive of folks having the chance to be themselves at work, I think it certainly helps boost morale; but a firm and fair dress code is needed again. The last few visits the number of generally disheveled CMs was sad to see.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
…the decline of common sense is to blame. I always side with freedom of expression…but that is dignified and doesn’t cross the line to putting yourself on display for effect.
Now I’ll go chase the kids off my lawn
MagicHappens1971
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The policy itself has changed, its “lack of enforcement” comes from the vague wording. Also as a CM I wouldn’t say that anyone is going over the top with these relaxed rules.
Stupido
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Yeah, they built inclusion as one of the pillars of the company. If they start firing people based off of what they look like, I’ll be pretty let down. Especially since cast member moral is already so low. This trip I went on October experienced a lot of less than magical interactions with cast members. A lot of them were on their phones, I saw a few eye rolls from cast members stretched too thin, and even witnessed a guest service cast member full on ignoring guests so she could tell her friend about the great discount she got at Cast Connections earlier that day. If there’s someone committed to making magic, who fully understands what’s expected of them and is happy to deliver, but they happen to have pink hair? I’d take that over the majority of cast members I saw in the park this past trip.
People have definitely being pushing g the boundaries, time to reign it in
el_super
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This isn't a reversal of the previous changes to the Disney look. They will remain in place. Since the changes, and due in part to the lack of staffing, enforcement of any appearance standards has been non-existent and this is an attempt to restart some of that enforcement. Things being emphasized now are very objective rules like hair styles, hair color, nail color and the like. Rules regarding how Cast Members present themselves (with regard to inclusion) are not being changed.
Indeed, if you read his Twitter chain, he's saying they're simply enforcing the "new look" that came out in 2021. Apparently, CMs were going beyond the new rules and it wasn't being enforced. It seems that during a labor shortage, managers didn't want to lose the help.
My understanding: Having someone assigned female at birth donning a conventionally more masculine dress on Main Street meets the key of inclusion. Having gauges or dyed neon hair does not meet the key of show.
The show key is being reinforced, the inclusion key is not being modified.
The Tweeter was using pink-dyed hair, which isn't part of the 'new look' as an example. So... don't know where you're getting your point about gender-neutral costuming, which is indeed part of the new look.
General response to people who didn't read the tweets.
CaptainAmerica
Premium Member
The problem isn't gender-neutral costuming, it's gendered costuming being worn by the opposite gender. Shout out to the bearded fellow in the Harbour House dress and bonnet.
Hey he showed up to work that’s all we can ask
That's nice to hear. If some cast don't come to work isn't that attendance policy still in effect?
Disstevefan1
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Sirwalterraleigh
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Ahh…I love Minnesota/Wisconsin
Rteetz
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Ahh…I love Minnesota/Wisconsin
