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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!
No reprieve for white jeans, chinos - 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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There are designer this and designer that, enough to fill a closet. And the irony lies in the fact they only wear a half-dozen or so. For the life of me , I shall never understand the logic (or lack of it) that lies in woman's thought process.
At the end of the day if you want to go in somewhere and they insist on a certain dress code who are you to argue , don't like it buy the bar and do what you like. Until then get a life mate.
Petra
Not all of us have to have lots of shoes and handbags. I like nice fabrics for my clothes but shoes have never been a big deal for me. I like good quality for "dress" shoes and the rest of the time I go for comfort.
And I buy my own shoes , thank you very much!