Bar Under Fire for Racist and Classist Dress Code

[Lazy Daisy]

https://www.yahoo.com/style/bar-fire-racist-classist-dress-code-214551970.html

Is this dress code racist & classist? Or is it really just a dress code to exclude casual wear?

[irisblue]

1. A pizzeria beer garden w/o tie dye or Hawaiian...& no denim?

Pretentious assets.

[Mosby]

2. They obviously are not hurting for business

The owners have some serious control issues.

[MineralMan]

3. Why not just post a sign saying: "Out of Business?"

[SomethingNew]

4. I don't have a problem with it.

I think they probably started to just screw around a bit with the length but it's not racist or classist. They could have simplified it quite bit by just saying "dress like an adult."

I've been to bars where they have similar dress codes but they aren't posted anywhere. The doormen just don't let you in if you're wearing sweatpants, tank tops, jerseys, or things like that.

[Freethinker65]

5. Take a look at their Facebook page pics.

While certainly not a hole in the wall dive bar, it obviously caters to casually dressed patrons. Dress code violations galore are prominently and proudly displayed of their obviously preferred target customers.

[Egnever]

6. So don't go there

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

7. Where I live that would exclusively apply to white men under 25

Nobody else dresses like that.

[cwydro]

8. I had a shirt with a three-quarter zipper as a kid.

Can't picture an adult shirt with a zipper so I must be out of the loop.

Similar to workplace dress codes, so I don't get the racist/classist angle.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. gang attire? racist af

[Adrahil]

10. Not sure I agree.

The first thing they mention are "cuts" were typically associated with Motorcycle Clubs (gangs), which are mostly, though not exclusively, white.

[Adrahil]

11. Meh... not particularly racist.... but seems pretty unwelcoming.

But classist? Lots of restaurants have dress standards that are classist, I guess. If I owned a restaurant, I would not allow any tank top without a covering shirt or jacket. Last think I wanna see when I am eating is someone's hairy pits.

[WillowTree]

12. It's neither racist nor classist. It pretty much looks like they don't want any customers at all.

[Shandris]

13. It's OBVIOUSLY racist. You wouldn't believe how hot Hawaiian shirts are in...

...urban centers!


Didn't you catch 2Chainz latest, wherein he's gallivanting around in flannel and a skull printed denim jacket? It's tight, lemmetellya!

Or how about Psy's latest, where Korea's most elite rapper (or was at one time, not sure about now!) was decked out in HOT urban gear straight out Gangnam, with his tie dyed floral print top and Nike's complemented by camo zipper pants? It's all the rage in Seoul.

...SMDH.

[Lazy Daisy]

14. Not sure what it is

but there is something off there. As I looked at pics, checked the place out, something made me very uncomfortable with the dress code. The code seems specifically exclusionary. Why not just say collared shirts required? And you'll notice it's up to the doorman, even it you change your appearance after being told no entry, you still can't get in? That really makes me uncomfortable.

[Coyote45]

15. not sure what it is

A good start of what is appropriate for circumstances is the Bloomberg channel.