Dress code against polo-shirts? Surely not …
The Star in Gillingham, Kent, may be less than busy this Bank Holiday, even with the awful weather, because it is holding fast to its decision to ban sportswear, even though at least one customer has vowed never to visit the pub again. Terry Satterford, 32, of the town, says he was refused entry because his ’sportswear’ did not meet their new ’smart casual’ dress code. He says he was wearing a red polo-shirt, yes, this year’s really hot fashion item! He even posed for photographs wearing it to show that it was ‘smart casual’. But the story doesn’t end there.
A spokesman for TCG Acquisitions Ltd who own the pub said that the pub does not have a ban on polo-shirts, and it will not allow people who dress too casually to drink there, and speculated that Mr Satterford must have been wearing more sportswear than the polo-shirt in order to have been refused custom. The dress code apparently doesn’t ban people from wearing polo-shirts, but does ban sportswear which includes tracksuit bottoms, trainers and baseball caps. The spokesman continued, ‘Mr Satterford would not have been turned away for what he was wearing in the picture shown on Kent Online (a local newspaper), but then you can’t see what he was wearing below the waist.’ Hmmm … a kilt? Trackies? Nothing at all?
Dress code shirt emblem courtesy of Andreas Hagerman
Add comment May 26th, 2008