Dublin City pub bans clientele from wearing track suits - POLL

Irish pub sends a message to Ireland’s public to smarten up their dress-code

Larger Text

Print

E-mail

2 Comments

Dublin Youths wearing sports wear

Photo by Google Images

Tweet

IrishCentral.com Poll

Is the public dress-code in general becoming too relaxed?

Yes, leave your gym gear and pjs at home

Maybe, it depends on the venue

No, comfort is the most important thing, to hell with decorum

After a recent movement to ban PJs from some public spaces, The Clock Bar, Thomas Street, Dublin has followed suit in an effort to keep its clientele a bit classier on the weekends. Now, after 7pm on Saturday and Sunday, the bar is refusing admission to anyone who shows up in a tracksuit.

However, the move to enforce proper attire in public hasn't stretched to all of Dublin's nightlife. Nash's pub, right across the from the Clock bar, isn't planning on letting people in based on what they're wearing.

"There is no dress code here. We don't even have doormen," saids Nash's bartender Dougie Parminter, speaking to the Herald. He does admit that he's seen "increasing numbers of patrons wearing tracksuits and runners," according to the Herald.
_____________

READ MORE:

Publicans call for ten percent cut on liquor tax as pub trade continues to flounder

How to look like an American in Ireland - Vera Bradley bag the giveaway that screams ‘Yank’ to the Irish

Temple Bar - Dublin’s tourist trap not a ‘cultural mecca’
_____________

The UK’s move to discourage pyjamas and sweatpants in public has stretched from supermarkets to youth groups. The supermarket chain Tesco, for instance, has put up signs across their UK stores saying that "footwear must be worn at all times and no nightwear is permitted" in order to ward off anyone who has decided to shop in their nighties.

In Dublin, a youth group banned members wearing their pyjamas during the summer with the sign stating, "Call us old-fashioned, but we think young women should wear pyjamas when they go to bed, not in a youth club where there's young men and adult men."

When questioned as to why this movement to wear comfy clothes out of the house has come about, former model Celia Holman Lee commented, "I have no idea where this trend came from, the only thing I can think of is because supermarkets are opening now all night, that maybe people just started to do their shopping in their pyjamas."

Print

E-mail

Tweet