Dress Code.

Judging from last night’s activity – there is no GFC.

This trumps the global financial crisis. Thanks for bringing something this terribly important to our attention.

Genie said :

I don’t go out to Civic much but had to have a good laugh at a bouncer at Meche the other week… a friend comes down to find me and then gets told he’s not allowed in as he is wearing “skate shoes”… Points out to said bouncer that he had already been upstairs for over an hour with no one telling him earlier his shoes were unacceptable. Bouncer continues to argue he’s not allowed back up, chicks at the door finally tell the bouncer to lay off, he’s already paid entry etc.

Me however, then gets another good laugh out of almost every male up there wearing similar or the exact same shoes as my mate.

That happened to myself and a friend at the Uni Pub a year or so ago, where the bouncer said next time we wouldn’t be let in if we were wearing sneakers/running shoes, which were not tatty in any way. We walked in and 90% of the males in the place were wearing sneakers.

While i’m accepting of no thongs/sandals in nightclbs, probably because most of them look bogan anyway, I think they should treat males and females the same way in that regard. Females get away with it because most of them are prettier than us males lol

Though some dress codes of the clubs are rediculous, but hey if they don’t want your money then that’s their loss.

pptvb: you are a tool.
Thank you for your Pulitzer Prize winning contribution. It wasn’t you that knocked me back last night, perchance?

squashee: Hope the sandals were well strapped on.. Last night the floor there was like super glue!

What I wanted to do was go to the bar, sink a couple of pints outside and make the last bus home. In the end, I just went home. The bouncer decided they didn’t want my money so it’s still in my pocket. I didn’t think I looked horrible – I’d just come in from the brumbies match and at 6pm when I turned up there it was hot enough that I wasn’t going to be wearing shoes. I was wearing shorts as well.

I’m old enough not to bother pressing the point, but clearly young enough to have a bitch and moan on here. It seem to be tenor of every other thread that makes the home page.

Sandals is probably the wrong word to describe the ‘shoes’, I think the correct phraseology is ‘slides’? Whatever.

I’m no hippy but if you decide to wear shorts, how would any of the smart arses on here choose to be shod?

“No pants” gets plenty of service from me in my establishment.. just love to see pants on the back of chairs. 😛

Hope the sandals were well strapped on.. Last night the floor there was like super glue!

I am a big fan of establishments with “no pants, no service” rules. Any more then that, who cares?

Mate, next time you see another unfriendly primate, try demonstrating the ol’ “banana on a string trick” to it.
Hey, wouldn’t it have been the coolest, if you had subsequently dropped in at a bowling alley, rented a pair of shoes (clearly marked as such), and then proceeded back to the crime scene?! Would have loved to have heard the “grunt”.. let out a genuine one LOL

I don’t go out to Civic much but had to have a good laugh at a bouncer at Meche the other week… a friend comes down to find me and then gets told he’s not allowed in as he is wearing “skate shoes”… Points out to said bouncer that he had already been upstairs for over an hour with no one telling him earlier his shoes were unacceptable. Bouncer continues to argue he’s not allowed back up, chicks at the door finally tell the bouncer to lay off, he’s already paid entry etc.

Me however, then gets another good laugh out of almost every male up there wearing similar or the exact same shoes as my mate.

Good topic! I got a chuckle out of it, anyway. And at least the neckless one tried to give a sensible answer. After all, you don’t want people pissing on your feet.

(ie. not the cheap rubbery ones)

I thought the cheap rubbery ones were the good ones?

and there would be a “post” missing there

Go to one of the numerous coffee threads and then have a lie down.

Please don’t about this again

They go with his dress singlet and pressed stubbies. 🙂

Kramer said :

I always think that it’s a bit unjust for women to get away with little sandals or thongs at a pub or club, whereas guys get knocked back with a decent pair of thongs (ie. not the cheap rubbery ones).

?decent pair of thongs.

Can that phrase really exist?

I always think that it’s a bit unjust for women to get away with little sandals or thongs at a pub or club, whereas guys get knocked back with a decent pair of thongs (ie. not the cheap rubbery ones).

My imported beer tastes better when there is no sandle-wearing hippies standing next me.

Cheers!

I’d be more concerned about someone pissing on my french calf hide boots than on my sandal clad feet…

The usual comments about wearing sandals, thongs or crocs in public aside, establishments have a right to post their own dress standards, some places wont let you in in a collarless shirt, work boots, boob tubes etc. Whilst O’Malleys is hardly the Melbourne Club, they do have the right to maintain a standard.

Were you wearing knee high socks with your sandals?

you are a tool.

normally.. 😉

And women don’t piss on each other’s feet 😉

Duty of Care.

Glass breaks, you cut yourself, you can sue.

Now, factoring in that women get away with open-toed shoes – or just a high heel platform with straps – it’s just because you are male.

In reality though, sandals and thongs are severely casual whereas womens’ shoes tend to at least look ‘pretty’.

Why sandals…were your uggh boots in the wash?

sandles? in a bar? you won’t get any sympathy from me.

having worked in similar places wearing sandals is an invite to having your foot cut

Don’t argue with wookies! Or anyone working in an airport.

Is Carney back?

The grunt was pissing in your pocket.

It’s not that hard to meet a minimum standard after all it wasn’t formal season was it?