Dress Code

[George K]

https://www.the-sun.com/news/4717556/restaurant-bans-customers-tattoos-heavy-jewellery-stop-intimidating/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly

A note in front of the popular Bedouin restaurant in Double Bay, Sydney informs its guests of the new rules.

According to the new house policy, customers cannot have "visible tattoos," wear "heavy jewellery" or "designer-labelled apparel".

The eatery's co-licensee Poata Okeroa told The Daily Telegraph: “We value our customers and community stakeholders, and have always implemented house rules that includes a dress policy that discourages intimidating appearances.

[George K]

In New Orleans, Commander's Palace will not seat some who are wearing denim, or without a jacket.

https://www.commanderspalace.com/reservations

Dress Code

• Business Attire
• Jackets are preferred for gentlemen
• Collared shirts and closed-toed shoes required for gentlemen
• No shorts, flip-flops, t-shirts, sweat shirts or sweat pants
• Jeans are discouraged; ripped jeans are not allowed

[Jolly]

Full wallets are also encouraged.

Try the turtle soup ...

[Doctor Phibes]

If you want to eat at a stuck up place, you need to follow their rules. It's generally easy enough to find nice restaurants that don't have over-the-top dress codes, or in the case of tattoos, completely out-of touch ideas.

One of the things I like about the US is that there are so many fewer expectations of how you need to dress if you're going out.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Dress Code:

One of the things I like about the US is that there are so many fewer expectations of how you need to dress if you're going out.

Is it more obnoxious restrictive elsewhere?

[Copper]

The cruises I went on several years ago had at least one night per week where "more formal" attire was expected at dinner.

This trip, there were a couple "Elegant" nights, but that mostly meant no shorts, no hats, no flip-flops, and no wife-beaters. Not really very elegant.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in Dress Code:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Dress Code:

One of the things I like about the US is that there are so many fewer expectations of how you need to dress if you're going out.

Is it more obnoxious restrictive elsewhere?

In England, at least when I lived there, you would definitely be expected to dress up a bit to go to a decent restaurant. Nightclubs wouldn't let you in wearing jeans back when I used to go to nightclubs. I've never been to an American nightclub due to my advanced age, so I don't know what they're like.

Canada was even scruffier than the USA - it was a huge culture shock. We were told that the first Christmas party was 'formal attire only' - I actually rented a tux. When we got there, some of them were wearing leather ties, and cowboy boots. I felt like such a twat.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Dress Code:

I felt like such a twat.

Has that feeling gone away?

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in Dress Code:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Dress Code:

I felt like such a twat.

Has that feeling gone away?

It comes and goes