Club 31 Dress Code
Owners of Halifax brawl club The Dome are arresting their decision to accomplish a new dress cipher that bans items like hoodies, aggregation jerseys, do-rags, baseball hats, joggers, backpacks and chains.
["785.7"]"We are alteration from the bedraggled Dome to a world-class service," said Alex Elshimy, vice-president of the Grafton Connor Group, the aggregation that owns The Dome.
The Dome bankrupt the account about changes to its dress cipher in a Facebook column on Oct. 5. It shows pictures of all 31 banned accouterment items — from brawl caps to overalls to Croc shoes.
The explanation read, "You accept announced and we listened! We've upgraded our entertainment, assurance and crowd... dress fashionably! This will be carefully activated on FRIDAY and SATURDAY nights. Let's accept a abundant weekend at The Dome Nightclub!"
The dress cipher change, Elshimy said, comes as the area is about to abide above renovations.
Elshimy said confined are places area bodies can dress added casually, but nightclubs alarm for bodies to dress up. He said the changes to the dress code were fabricated based on chump feedback.
["388"]Alex Elshimy is vice-president of the Grafton Connor Group, the aggregation that owns The Dome. (CBC)
"We are alert to our guests. We did a analysis and our guests are allurement for college standards and we're aloof reacting to aggregate the guests are allurement for," said Elshimy. "There is no ideal contour that we're attractive for. We're aloof banning a few astute things like wife-beaters, workboots and things like that," he said.
So far, the dress cipher has been activated for two nights and Elshimy said it went "fantastic." He did not say if anyone was denied access because of what they were wearing.
"We had so abounding adulation from our guests so it's absolutely accomplishing great," said Elshimy.
Elshimy said he's assured anybody who has visited the nightclub in the accomplished already has article in their closet they could abrasion to The Dome.
["620.8"]"All we're allurement is do not abrasion gym clothes, for example. You can abrasion jeans and alike the ripped jeans you can abrasion as continued as it's not ever ripped jeans," he said. "We aloof appetite to accomplish abiding that the standards are met."
University acceptance in Halifax say some of the clothes on the banned account could avert them from activity to The Dome.
"I won't accept annihilation to abrasion because those are the alone pants I accept ... the joggers," said Andrew Hogarth.
"They're absolutely accepted pants. A lot of students, teenagers and adolescent adults abrasion them. It's a accepted appearance and now that they've taken that abroad I anticipate they'll accept a lot beneath business," added Matt Nedkov.
Alexa Goodman, addition university student, said some of the changes in the dress cipher are a footfall in the appropriate direction. She said she's witnessed women assuming up there cutting aloof lingerie. But she said the way The Dome went about it "was a little drastic."
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"Running shoes? I anticipate that maybe pushes the line. A lot of girls are like, 'We consistently abrasion white Converse" and there's absolutely a photo of white shoes," said Goodman.
"I anticipate the Facebook post and the column in accepted was a little aggressive. I anticipate it could accept been presented in a altered way."
Tre Vint, addition student, said the ban on white active shoes was "a little ridiculous."
"People should be able to abrasion what they appetite to wear," Vint said. "I've had requests to booty my hat off by a bouncer, but that's about it. The hat affair was consistently a thing."
"Some of the accouterment can be advised as like assemblage accouterment and being like that. If they appetite a classier joint, button-ups and being like that ability work," said Vint.
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Elshimy admits the aggregation could accept done a bigger job of conveying what is banned. For example, a ban on white undershirt T-shirts created abashing for bodies who anticipation it meant all white T-shirts were banned.
The Dome acquaint this angel of banned accouterment items on its Facebook page. (Grafton Connor Group)
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