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Mother outraged after Sainsbury’s driver says her son shouldn’t be wearing a fairy outift

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Isaac Armitage, 4 from Leatherhead wearing his fairy costume

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Isaac Armitage, 4 from Leatherhead wearing his fairy costume
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An angry mum today (tues) blasted supermarket giant Sainsbury’s after a delivery driver told her four-year-old boy that he shouldn’t be wearing a sparkly fairy dress.

Isaac Armitage had been playing in a black and purple fairy outfit with his little sister when he answered the door to the un-named driver.

Mum Wendy Armitage, 36, says she then overheard the driver say to Isaac ‘someone needs to take you to one side and have a word with you, you can’t be a fairy, you should be a superhero.’

The youngster, who wore the fun outfit a few times a week, has been left upset by the incident and Wendy says he now rarely wants to dress up.

Mum Wendy Armitage with son Isaac Armitage
Mum Wendy Armitage with son Isaac Armitage

Wendy, who is also mum to two-year-old Felicity, said: “I just couldn’t believe it when I heard it.

“If he had said it’s unusual to be a fairy, we wouldn’t have have thought too much of it but saying someone should take Isaac to one side implies he was doing something wrong.

“I feel disappointed that there are still people in this world that ask questions like that and and think it is their right to tell other people what they can and cannot wear.

“My son has been more reluctant to wear his fairy dress since, he has only worn it once or twice whereas he used to wear it all the time.”

SWNS_FAIRY_BOY_05The delivery driver had gone to Wendy’s house on August 13 and she was upstairs in bed as she has a chronic pain condition which affects her mobility.

Her facilities manager husband Laurence Armitage, 35, had been in the kitchen unpacking the shopping after Isaac answered the door to the driver.

Wendy, who used to be a paediatric nurse, added: “He was wearing a fairy dress up outfit and so was his little sister and he likes answering the door when he knows the delivery driver is coming.

“I was upstairs having a bed day as I have a disability and heard the driver say to my son ‘where’s mummy?’ and Isaac said I was upstairs.

“So he asked Isaac ‘are you the doctor and your sister the nurse?’, which I thought was a bit sexist, and he said ‘why are you wearing a fairy dress?’

“Isaac said ‘because I am being a fairy’ and the driver said someone should take him to one side and have a word with him.”

Wendy Armitage
Wendy Armitage

Isaac first developed a love of dressing up at the age of two after coming across a big box of outfits at a parent toddler group.

As well as his fairy outfit, he also regularly dresses as Darth Vader, a doctor, nurse and vet.

Wendy said: “He first wore a fairy dress after going to a toddler group and they had a big box of dressing up outfits and they had a dress there and he liked it.

“So we got a bag of mixed dressing up clothes and he liked those dresses as well, he also likes the fireman outfit.

“He’s definitely very imaginative. He’s always playing make believe and being different characters. Even if he doesn’t have the dress up things to do it.

“When he didn’t have a magic wand he made one himself and he will often cut up bits of cardboard to make props.”

Wendy from Effingham, Surrey, said she has since tried to explain to both of her children why the man said what he did.

But as they are so young they have been left confused by what happened and Wendy believes the family deserve an apology.

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She added: “I tried to contact Sainsbury’s customer service afterwards and couldn’t get through so wrote on their Facebook page where they replied to me.

“I got a reply which said ‘sorry about that!’ and asked me to send them a message explaining what happened and they said they’ll look into it.

“We didn’t get any real apology though and I asked what is going to happen from here and they said it has been reported to the online manager at that store for them to look into it.”

The incident happened on August 13 after Wendy had a delivery from the WHICH store.

She now hopes the delivery driver gets retrained so that no other child should be made to feel the same way.

Wendy added: “I have always encouraged both of my children to be what ever they want to be.

“We had to spend quite a lot of time explaining to Isaac that he can wear whatever he wants to wear and that he can be a fairy if he wants to be.

“Clothes do not define them and my children can wear whatever they would like to.”

A spokeswoman for Sainsbury’s said: “We have apologised to the customer for these inappropriate remarks and taken suitable action with the colleague.”

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