Dress code in bars and clubs too strict
In this country our bars and clubs rip us off left right and centre with the cost of drinks or admission fees. To add insult to injury many of these places are now starting to insist on a dress code before you can even get through the door. If you're going out clubbing you need to think carefully about what you wear or find yourself refused entrance.
In the town where I live we have two weekend late-night drinking establishments. The one most people prefer to frequent is a modern, bright, fairly expensive wine bar with a resident DJ. On a Saturday night people looking for somewhere to continue enjoying their night out start queuing at 10.30 in order to ensure that they gain entrance.
This establishment however, has a rather strict dress code, jeans and trainers not being considered suitable attire.
Several times I have queued up with friends only to have the slightly stroppy bouncer deny entry to some of them for the sin of wearing, shock horror, JEANS and TRAINERS!
'Denim is denim - whatever the colour'
And there is no reprieve for white jeans, chinos or whatever you like to call them (denim is denim whatever the colour or label) or any trainers that resemble "normal shoes" but are in fact not as they are made of fabric not shiny leather or leather effect plastic.
So what makes this form of dress offensive? I take it that it isnt because the wearer is deemed to poor to drink in the establishment as he can only afford jeans and trainers to wear because everyone knows that a decent pair of jeans and trainers costs quite a lot of money. Maybe the management assume that the wearing of these items turns the normally mild mannered person into a beer swilling trouble maker who has nothing better to do than start a fight and wreck the establishment. Most of my friends spend all week working in offices dressed in "proper" trousers and shoes and prefer to spend their weekends in less formal clothes, maybe it is time that bars and nightclubs stopped being so snobby about dress code.
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wandering critic - 1-Nov-11 01:52
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"...some might say it takes one to know one.."
What a pointless, meaningless, inane, shallow statement. If you have nothing to contribute, may I suggest you do just that.
Shouldn't you be doing your homework?
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"stupid battymen" - Rasta Mouse
"shirt lifters" - Boblet
...some might say it takes one to know one...
so how do yours' hang'? :)
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Wasn't this thread meant to be about strict or snobby dress codes in clubs or bars rather than wearing your tie loosened?
Personally, I would prefer to see someone in clean jeans and trainers than a scruffy and malodorous old suit.
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It could of course be a sub-species of humanity speaking another language; teenagers.
A job for GCHQ
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inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity.
erotic gratification derived from admiration of one's own physical or mental attributes, being a normal condition at the infantile level of personality development.
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Nobody has to read it, but it is a waste of space and quite irritating to see it.
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Your new tie sounds nice. So when will the first time be when you wear it tightly fastened? (You can say 'never'! haha). Not skinny I hope, so that you can still do a decent tie knot?
Mostly now as the weather is getting cooler I am keeping my tie on in the evenings, but very loose. You ask why I don't completely remove my tie on the way home from work... I just appreciate the look and style of a loosened tie when wearing a decent suit and shirt. Can't really explain it. Can you?
Do you have any 'dos' you are going to in the near future when you have to dress ultra-smart?
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I bought a new tie at the weekend from Lewin's - light blue with floral pattern - a bit slimmer than my usual ones. I wore it today but loose as I had no formal meetings, and kept it on but looser into the evening.
Do you take your tie off when home to differentiate 'social' and 'business' looks - as at lunchtime - for comfort or both? Any reason you don't undo it on the journey home except that it can look good having a much looser tie with a suit?
How did the wedding go by the way? Did you adapt then and encourage other blokes to go looser after the ceremony?
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Like you, I loosen off down to around second button, so that the benefit is felt. I don't tend to take my tie off until I get home.
Most evenings my tie comes off, unless I just put on a pullover on top, but then the tie may as well come off, as the tie can't be seen above the 'V'
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It's been a loosened tie week in the main - one meeting with the tie tight and top button done up, but otherwise definitely tie hanging loose (and tie off at lunch).
I like loosening off my tie more on the way home too - usually over the second button down - but sometimes I'll take my tie off completely if hot or if I want to adapt the look.
If my tie is still on (but loose) when I get home I'll sometimes keep it on, but loose, if I'm not going out or changing out of work gear. What about you?
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Ah, tie off at lunchtime, but tie kept on after work whilst travelling home. Not sure why I don't take off my tie on the way back, I guess I like the idea of loosening off more, and if I removed my tie leaving work I wouldn't be able to have it hanging loose! What about you, do you remove your tie straight after work? If not, when do you remove it?
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