Dress Codes In Pubs

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I went out in Milton Keynes last night with Paul. We were not allowed to go into a pub as he was wearing baseball boots. I asked the manager why we were not allowed in and he said it was because of the dress code. I asked if there was a reason why trainers were not allowed and he said no, it is just the dress code.
Why does this rule exist?
 
Dunno but its silly. In Blackpool when i used to go out regular it was shoes and trousers only on a friday and saturday night.
 
Baseball boots :o :lol: I had a pair of those, All Stars I think they were called :huh: wore them with a tube skirt if I remember right :ph34r:
 
I don't understand, Colin.

I wore them with jeans and a shirt. My skirt wearing days are long gone.
 
I think we all know what the objective is, even if we agree it is probably a futile method of achieving it.

Having a dress "code" removes the subjectivity from the decision making by the staff on the door.

And given my usual experience of door staff; not asking them to think and then come to a reasoned conclusion probably isn't a bad thing.
 
Tsk tsk. I think the management was quite right. Basies or trainers are not appropriate for a night out unless it's the local boozer. Denims should also be banned.

Don't leave your class in school, Paul ;)
 
DO, I wear a suit all week, I really don't want to wear trousers and shoes at the weekend and more and more places are letting people in with jeans, which is a good thing.
 
I can see the reason for having a dress code but I also think when you call the manager he should have the common sense to leave in people who are only looking to have a quite drink. Its bad business to refuse or bar people from your premises.
 
Between the three of us, we spent well over 100 quid last night. I agree with you, Gearoid.
 
I've given up drinking in Cork City. For a couple of years everytime I went up there I was plauged for I.D everywhere. Refused with my girlfriend on my first drink when I had I.D. Refused as a group when after a few drinks etc etc. Every other city I've drank in including the capital, there has never been a problem. I'm sure the next time your well dressed and out with a group yyou wont be rusging to go in there.
 
Originally posted by PDJ@Feb 4 2007, 08:27 PM
Between the three of us, we spent well over 100 quid last night. I agree with you, Gearoid.
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That's two bottles of Sancerre each !
 
Been dress codes in clubs for yonks when I was bouncing...(and theres no truth in the rumour I was taught in mother care either, or it was the British Legion doors I worked on, I can assure you?) no jeans and definetily no trainers...it was obviously to stop the clientel doing a runner or causing a fight wearing their working jeans and trainers while I was in my tidy gear..... bow tie and all....... ;) B)

So in summary I think the dress code that they require (they think?) will not cause them any hassle, rather than someone casually dressed..........

If I wanted to fight I would be in my casual gear not my best suit, that seems to be the phillosophy behind it.......... :rolleyes:
 
Paul, does your school have a dress code? If so, why? The reasons for certain places insisting on a dress code are broadly similar, wouldn't you say?

When I was younger, if certain places didn't admit punters with jeans or trainers, we just went somewhere where they did.
 
Our school states teachers should look smart. This is in order to set an example to younger pupils, nothing to do with Darwin defying cretins attempting to prove their masculinity.
 
This is why female 'door supervisors' are a good idea. Paul's been threatened on a basic Alpha male level. He knows that intellectually he could possibly have these guys over the proverbial (unless one's a moonlighting professor of Higher Physics), but challenged and rejected on the grounds of inappropriate clothing, he has been reduced to a mere puppy, being given a lesson by one of the lesser males in the pack.

Young ladies thus employed would've said, "I know it's a jolly silly rule - and by the way, you look really cool in that Ben Sherman shirt and FCUK jeans - and personally, if it was up to me, I'd get rid of it, but I'm really, really sorry that I can't let you in tonight. But if you come back tomorrow, my love, in nice shiny loafers, there'll be no problem."

Then she'd brush an imaginary speck of lint off his shoulder (grooming the superior male) and give him a little peck on his cheek, signifying that his status was undented, she recognised her place in the pack as a naturally inferior one, happy only to serve him in his best interests, and that his full power as an Alpha would be restored as soon as he resumed social, rather than sports, footwear. Easy!
 
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