If it's true that's what your standards are for CM uniforms and appearance, it says you don't understand what Disneyland's long-term strategy has been for showmanship and service standards. But I find that hard to believe of you, to be honest.
It's not even a "Walt thing", since he was only there for the first 11 years, and these standards were fine-tuned and held in place for at least six decades. It's more of a Van France and Dick Nunis and Jack Lindquist thing.
My expectations are based on what I actually experienced at the Anaheim parks for many decades of the 20th century, into the 2010's.
It was most certainly glamorous. It still is in many spots where the CM costumes and "Show" were designed decades ago and have not yet been altered by these newly lowered standards. Disneyland Resort locations like Carthay Circle Restaurant, Haunted Mansion, Disneyland Opera House, New Orleans Square shopping/dining, Disneyland Tour Guides, etc.
There used to be quite a bit more park locations that were far more glamorous than today, but their uniforms and Show was abandoned or changed recently, like Golden Horseshoe Saloon, the Plaza Inn, Frontierland stores, Tahitian Terrace, the Tiki Room show hostesses, etc.
I get what Mickey's Toontown is supposed to be. It's existed since 1993, and all major elements and facilities from 1993 are still there. What's interesting is that the big new E Ticket they just miraculously shoehorned into that little land got obviously new CM costumes that are traditionally good looking, stylish and flattering, and even quite clever with the way they morph from one location to another.
But the rest of the Toontown "land" costumes that just got rolled out?
Those are crap. And they look bad on the CM's wearing them, even on opening weekend when they'll never look this fresh and fully complemented ever again. They also register to the eye as being very "contemporary", which is never a thing that ages well. They'll look dated in 5 years, and absolutely humiliating a decade from now.
Like locking in place the acid-washed denim dresses the girls who worked at Videopolis wore in the mid 1980's.
