Is this discrimination?

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I was talking to my boyfriend today about my last boyfriend. I told him about how he hired people when he worked as a manager and be hiring people. I told him he told me if I came into the place to apply and I was dressed up the way I was (had on a red turtle neck, a vest with stars and Saturn on it and black pants with flowers on the bottom) he would have thrown away my application once I turned it in because of the way I was dressed. I told him of course my mother wore the vest when I was little, and the pants are women pants, this isn't a kid's outfit and he said it was out of style. He said he wouldn't hire someone if they wore out of style clothes and my boyfriend said "that's discrimination."

Is that really discriminating by refusing to hire someone just by the way they dress? If they were a bum that be different my boyfriend says. If they had poor hygiene I'm sure that be different too. You have to be clean when you work.