Ever been refused admittance to a strip club due to your attire?
shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
I did once at Thee Whiskey Tavern in Columbia SC back in Dec 2010. I had planned on being the first customer to review the club but I was not allowed in. She said that a membership card was $5/year. I was ready to take one for the team. $5 ain't nothing. I was curious. Then she said there is a problem. "your attire does not meet our dress code" I was wearing sweats and tennis shoes. So I did do the first review. I also did the last review for the club. Nov 10, 2017 when the county shut down the club.
I noticed that Rick Dugan also did one of the 21 reviews. His 3 piece suit didn't help him. :)
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I did, however, witness a couple of African Americans being denied entry to one of the local clubs because of their dress. There's a sign on the front of the building, before you even get inside, with the rules, and these guys violated about half of them.
They they tried to get the local news to believe that the AA owner and AA bartender were racist because they wouldn't let them in.
In Florida, we have two that are kind of close: Bottom's Up Club in New Smyrna Beach and Diamond Dolls in Clearwater.
Not the best looking women but VHM.
Was stopped at the door at Larry Flint's Hustler Club in SF, I was wearing black 5.11 cargo pants. They have a dressy look, but the doorman insisted that I should be wearing slacks. He called the head bouncer, who said my attire was acceptable.
Also was denied into a local favorite club in SF on New Years Eve. For wearing the same type of outfit I wore in there all the other times. Apparently they had some 'classy' vibe going on and you needed to be dressed up to get in. C'est la vie.
Never been denied anywhere else.
1) Baby Dolls Dallas circa 2000 (at their old location pre-2007)
I was wearing khakis; dress-shoes; and a nice t-shirt that just happened not to have a collar but it was a nice t-shirt nevertheless – it was a busy weekend eve and I was standing in line waiting to pay my cover – as it was getting near my turn to pay my cover the bouncer saw me and said I couldn’t go in b/c my tshirt didn’t have a collar – I def wasn’t under-dressed and I assume the club had that policy at that time; but in previous and subsequent visits I dressed similarly and didn’t have a problem – I can only assume the bouncer was either being a dick; or perhaps they were being picky at the door as to whom they were letting in that night b/c it was so busy (I assume they may have wanted to give preferential treatment to groups of guys that would “supposedly” spend more vs a guy walking in by himself)
2) Club Blaze ATL a couple of years ago – I was wearing my black Tashi Lounge Pants (w/ pockets) but I was commando and these pants are thin and kinda mark your package; the bouncer noticed my package and said “you can’t come in with no drawls on bro” – so I was denied entry - I had clubbed commando there b/f on multiple visits but that was on dayshift whereas this one was a rare nightshift - on dayshift I used to wear my loose basketball shorts and those didn’t mark my package as much as the thin lounge pants did (although in subsequent reviews I had read of some bouncers specifically looking to see if you had underwear while they gave you the patdown at the door)
2.5) Baby Dolls Dallas again this time in late-2018 - it was a nightshift visit and I was wearing my Tashi lounge pants again and commando (in the last 5 years or so most of my clubbing is on dayshift and I wear loose basketball shorts; on my rare nightshift visits I tend to wear my black Tashi Lounge Pants that have pockets and kinda look like regular slacks unless one looks closely) – anyway on this late-2018 Baby Dolls Dallas visit this time it was one of the girls taking the cover that said I couldn’t come in – she was a young girl very-early 20s and she kinda told me w/ an attitude as if she owned the place and it kinda pissed me off a young-punk like that talking to me the way she did – I got into a bit of an argument w/ her and around that time a 30-something male-staff worker had come to the front-desk on unrelated business and the young-punk I was arguing w/ told him “he wants to come in w/ those pants” – he looked at me and told her it was ok and I was allowed in – I assume that “technically” I was not dressed to Baby Dolls requirements and I accept that and would have left; what pissed me off the most was the young-punk’s attitude and the way she talked down to-me me being in my late-40s at the time
I think there was another time I was denied entry at another club but I just can’t remember right now.
Once we went in I realized we were still sticking out like sore thumbs. We were the only guys not wearing a work shirt with our names sewn on it. All the girls flocked to us because we looked like we had more money to spend than the rest of the crowd combined. We got some icy looks and angry "who the fuck do they think they are?" comments. We were there about 2 hours and made two trips to the single VIP room. No one else did.
I've only been to a handful of clubs where the doorman or valet waved me off from a bad visit. They make an easy 10 or 20 bucks and I save myself from a waste of time. In those cases the reviews were trash and the club was in between better venues, but sometimes a so bad it's good visit has a better payoff then yet another VIP notch with middling talent.
I had problems twice. But tnis was maybe 8 years ago. Once for not wearing dress shoes. And once for wearing a winter jacket in winter. They had no coat check and said I can't bring it in.