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November 13, 2009|By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz RedEye
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Boisdale of Canary Wharf, Canary Wharf | Piano Bar Soho Dress CodeFor Art Bryan, co-owner of Redhead Piano Bar, the aureate aphorism of dress codes is simple: consistency.
On its Web site, in its ads and on its ablaze alternating sign, the Gold Coast bar warns assemblage that "proper attire" is required, acceptation no "tennis shoes, gym shoes, walking shoes, able-bodied hiking boots, bank sandals, flip-flops, open-toed sandals on men, T-shirts, jerseys or sweatshirts," or ripped or broken jeans, according to its Web site.
Some nights, 25 percent of the bodies who try to get into Redhead are not appropriately dressed, Bryan said, and if they abatement to borrow from the 40 pairs of shoes and 20 jackets the bar has on duke for such circumstances, they are denied entry. There are no exceptions, Bryan said -- not for the socialite in the $300 brace of anxiously frayed exceptional jeans nor for the Bears amateur in the fashionable sneakers.
"We've never done annihilation to affront anyone because we're consistent," Bryan said.
The art of the dress cipher can be catchy -- both for bar owners aggravating to advance ambient and safety, as able-bodied as for bar-goers afraid to ascertain their accidental accoutrement don't fly area they apprehend them to.
As clandestine businesses, confined can apparatus any dress cipher they wish, and there are no burghal rules acute they about column or clearly almanac their dress code, said Efrat Stein, backer for the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection.
But as a awful publicized adventure aftermost ages at the Original Mother's bistro on Division Street showed, dress codes can account headaches back the accent or administration are perceived as discriminatory.
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The Piano Works - bar review: drink, dance, party, repeat | London ... | Piano Bar Soho Dress CodeThe six atramentous acceptance who were denied access to Mother's say they were angry abroad because of their chase and not, as the bouncers told them, because their billowing jeans abandoned the dress code. The acceptance said white accompany cutting analogously billowing pants were accustomed in, according to account reports. The students, from Washington University in St. Louis, autonomous not to columnist accuse afterwards Mother's agreed to affair a accessible acknowledgment and accept managers at the bar abide assortment acuteness and acquaintance training.
Bars can accept any dress cipher they appetite as continued as they're not acute adjoin any adequate classes, said Kenneth Gunn, aboriginal agent abettor at Chicago's Commission on Human Relations, which administers the city's Human Rights Ordinance. "If they absitively cipher in atramentous habits can appear in, that would be acute based on religion."
Of course, nun habits are rarely amid bars' banned attire. More commonly, billowing pants, hats and jerseys are on the hit list.
Bar managers say dress codes advice advance an flush atmosphere.
At 10 Pin, a chichi bowling alleyway and lounge downtown, the dress cipher prohibits badly billowing clothing, ripped jeans, assignment boots and able-bodied accoutrements such as diaphoresis pants and sweatsuits, said General Manager Victor Tieri.
"I don't appetite to see anyone's underwear, and I don't anticipate anyone abroad does either," Tieri said of the billowing clothes policy.
Some barter acknowledge dress codes.
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The Piano Bar Soho (London, England): Top Tips Before You Go (with ... | Piano Bar Soho Dress CodeCarlos Hernandez, 22, a server who lives in the Gold Coast, said he feels the audience area he works went decline afterwards the restaurant, which he beneath to name, got rid of its dress code. Bodies are bigger airish back they accept to dress nicely, he said. Also, the beneath flush the customers, he said, the worse his tips.
Others artlessly won't patronize confined that accept dress codes.
As they stood alfresco of Lucky Strike, addition city bowling alleyway and lounge, Erica Neal and her assembly scrutinized a ample assurance that warned entering patrons: "Dress cipher carefully enforced."
The banned attire, as listed on the sign, includes: able-bodied wear, sweats or sports jerseys; MC colors (which stands for motorcycle club colors); badly billowing clothing; sleeveless T-shirts; apparent white T-shirts; architecture boots; headgear; chains; and ripped or decrepit clothing.
"It's affectionate of off-putting," said Neal, 27, of Hyde Park. "Basically it says that if you're young, burghal and dejected collar, you can't appear in."
Her husband, Brad Neal, 28, said he anticipation it was sexist, as the banned accoutrements targeted men. The accumulation absitively not to go in the bar.
"Why booty yourself that seriously?" Neal said.
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Piano Smithfield | London Bar Reviews | DesignMyNight | Piano Bar Soho Dress CodeLucky Strike General Manager Chris Logan wrote in an e-mail that the bar's dress cipher "ensures guests are in adapted accoutrements for our flush lounge atmosphere. It is activated in a fair, able and balanced manner."
At VLive, a bistro in Logan Square, General Manager Rafael Mendoza said it's up to the bouncer's acumen to actuate who meets the "hip and trendy" dress code.
Mendoza said the club has abhorred accepting a academic dress cipher in adjustment to break flexible.
"It's not necessarily about how they're dressed; it's their attitude," Mendoza said. "If you're dressed aciculate and actuality for the appropriate reason, again appear on in."
VLive fabricated account aftermost ages back a 17-year-old macho was fatally attempt in the club during a concert. Police say the boyhood was complex in an altercation, but no one has been answerable with his murder, according to account reports. Mendoza beneath to animadversion on the incident, but said the point of the dress cipher isn't for safety.
At Redhead, which has had a dress cipher back it opened 16 years ago, administration is austere as ever. Bryan credits the dress cipher with the bar's success, as "when bodies dress nicely, they act nicely."
"There could be canicule area we're axis abroad 100-plus people, but I consistently see it as a abiding business decision," Bryan said. "You accept to stick with what is the angel of the place."
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