ToughDiamond wrote:
I suppose these restaurants and clubs that insist on dress codes think their more conventional customers might stop going if they had to be among people whose clothes they didn't feel were appropriate, though I have trouble understanding how they could possibly be so uptight - I'm strongly welded to practicality and have never yet felt the faintest objection to the guy next to me not wearing a suit, under any circumstances.
My girlfriend watched the show
Bar Rescue for a while & some struggling bars/clubs were advised to implement a dress code because they had a reputation of violence. The dress codes were about stereotyping people's looks to keep the thugs & riff-raff out.