I kinda love the snottiness of this bar’s dress code, mostly because of how perfectly it allows me to envision the nightlife scene in Tampa, Florida, where Kim spotted this notice. (Essentially, a whole lotta Jon Gosselin-type-wannabes?)
Meanwhile, Holly’s friend Jess snapped this picture of the new dress code at a college-town bar in Ohio. “I’m guessing the boss is not a fan of the frat kids,” says Holly.
related: Why I hate Miami, exhibit a
93 responses so far ↓
#1
Hannah
Well, I guess they don’t hate TapouT /that/ much.
Mar 9, 2011 at 2:42 pm rating: 3
#2
WhitneyD
Looks like they also want to keep out any Jersey Shore wannabes, too!
Mar 9, 2011 at 2:46 pm rating: 5
#3
unholyghost2003
Wait … what? Am I the only one who finds it weird that TapouT is preferred over Under Armour? Did I miss a new development in the douchebag dress code? Monkey and I have Under Armour stuff … I mean we only wear it to work out and not around town … but if I were a fan of college football I might well wear a UA Ole’ Miss t-shirt or something out in the wider world … (Or considering that this is Florida maybe a UA Gators T-shirt?)
Mar 9, 2011 at 2:51 pm rating: 5
#4
Woman on the Verge
If I can’t flare my lats, I’m out.
Wait. “Flare my lats” is a euphemism, right?
Mar 9, 2011 at 2:53 pm rating: 25
#5
Kielfergen
Ha ha ha! Great one:) Clear message!
Mar 9, 2011 at 3:09 pm rating: 0
#6
Nahhh
I had to look up “under armor,” because I was picturing something in chain-mail…which would be awfully hot in Florida.
Mar 9, 2011 at 3:11 pm rating: 31
#7
KAS
I know Tampa- I assume the club is in Ybor City, or nearby. I’m surprised they’re able to find enough people to meet those rules to fill up the bar! It’s a trashy, trashy nightclub town.
Mar 9, 2011 at 3:12 pm rating: 15
#8
Jennifer
Eric Burdon must have really pissed off one of their bartenders.
Mar 9, 2011 at 3:22 pm rating: 14
#9
unholyghost2003
I saw a guy in full on doucheiform the other day. Black leather Affliction jacket, TapouT t-shirt, Ed Hardy jeans, sideways flat-billed hat w/stickers still on it … best part was he was out to eat with his whole family … wife and two high school/college age kids. Yeah, you think this looks funny/stupid on young guys? Wait until you see a guy in his late 40′s trying to pull it off.
Mar 9, 2011 at 3:23 pm rating: 46
#10
pony girl
I guess Corey Hart is not welcome
Mar 9, 2011 at 3:51 pm rating: 8
#11
Therapist Los Angeles
It’s a good thing the cast of Jersey Shore was in Miami, not Tampa. Wouldn’t have it been easier to just find a picture and say “If you look like this, you’re not welcome.”? I suppose it’s Darwinism of the Fashion World. (Or lack of.)
Mar 9, 2011 at 3:57 pm rating: 1
#12
Kim
Hi! I took this at the James Joyce Irish Pub in Ybor, Tampa
Mar 9, 2011 at 4:29 pm rating: 13
#13
unholyghost2003
Sort of, yes … but interacting with his family who were all dressed pretty normally. (T-shirts with local sports teams and normal jeans)
GAH! This was supposed to nest under #9 but I got a fail then I tried to re-post and the check is in the mail, the dog ate my homework, and I was just making the short drive home officer.
Mar 9, 2011 at 4:29 pm rating: 13
#14
Divvitar
Are you sure this isnt racist? In my neck of the woods, only blacks and hispanics dress that way!
Mar 9, 2011 at 5:31 pm rating: 0
#15
Joe
As mentioned, its the James Joyce Irish Pub. Its small, relaxed atmosphere, laid back bartenders and its actually a nice place to hang out. There are some other “Irish pubs” in town (the infamous MacDinton’s) where a neon Guinness sign is the only thing festive aside from the rampant yuppie douchebags and rapidly-texting skanks. At JJ, you can actually get a table, have some reasonably priced drinks and watch a game, play some darts, have a conversation, etc.
But if, like, that ain’t yo thing, brah, then I’m sure the dress code would be like, major downage.
Mar 9, 2011 at 6:37 pm rating: 6
#16
aaa
Bitch, please. I’ll wear my sunglasses at night if I want to. Don’t switch the blade on a guy in shades.
Mar 9, 2011 at 9:07 pm rating: 14
#17
Mrs.Beasley
Signed,
Sister Mary Illuminati, O.P.
St. Bruno of the Hills Bingo and Beer Fest
Mar 9, 2011 at 9:12 pm rating: 1
#18
Odious
Since “Animals” is capitalized I’m assuming, like #8, you can’t have The Animals on your Ipod. But how do they know?
I can “flare” neither my lats nor my “mean mug”. At least not as far as I know.
Mar 9, 2011 at 11:49 pm rating: 3
#19
jenn
“This party just took a turn…for the douche.”
Mar 10, 2011 at 1:09 am rating: 9
#20
Julie Hayes
Hi from Australia, what does the “no Animals” mean? No pets? No little hairy mad muppets. Enquiring minds from down under want to know.
Mar 10, 2011 at 2:29 am rating: 3
#21
Grant
Collect your cardigan and slippers from the cloakroom.
Mar 10, 2011 at 4:15 am rating: 0
#22
The Elf
My husband is a naturally well-built man who can actually flare his lats. (For the record, he doesn’t wear affliction, saves his underarmor for workouts, and doesn’t own one scrap of Ed Hardy merchandise.) I tease him that when he “flares his lats” he looks like he has a vestigal wing, or skin flaps like a flying squirrel. So now I’m picturing a bar full of too-old-to-be-doing-this Jon Gosselin-looking douchebags jumping from rafters and gliding downwards by flaring their lats, all while making their “mean face”.
I’ve got to stop spiking my morning coffee.
Mar 10, 2011 at 6:18 am rating: 16
#23
berge
I’m picturing that when people come to the door that they don’t want in the bar, they just add whatever they are wearing to the list.
On a side note, I have no idea what most of the stuff on the list is.
Mar 10, 2011 at 11:17 am rating: 3
#24
Heather
I had to do way too much Google-ing to understand this one! I guess I am out of it!
Mar 10, 2011 at 1:54 pm rating: 0
#25
gg
bad dress you!
Mar 10, 2011 at 6:59 pm rating: 6
#26
shipaddict
I can’t believe no one has pointed out that the maker of the sign can’t even spell “affliction” correctly. Love the sign, but I would be embarrassed to hang it in my bar with that glaring typo.
Mar 10, 2011 at 8:35 pm rating: 3
#27
Kaitlyn
LMFAO I go to Sky Bar. They really do need that sign!
Mar 10, 2011 at 10:37 pm rating: 2
#28
malkatz
I live in NEW JERSEY, and I haven’t heard of some of this stuff.
Mar 11, 2011 at 2:06 am rating: 3
#29
Alex
skybar is in the town i grew up in. bowling green, ohio. this is tooooooo funny
Mar 11, 2011 at 7:52 am rating: 0
#30
Jilia
I live in Tampa and this sign is SO necessary… Tons of NY trash (or even worse PhillyF*heads) washes up on our beaches too!
Mar 11, 2011 at 12:44 pm rating: 2
#31
Rhoddy
From a UK perspective, I had to google all of the brand names mentioned in this post, and I was wondering what the massive stereotype attached to them in the US is and if the typical wearers really cause a huge problem when out on the town? It seems to be something akin to chavs, in which case the signs would be on par with a ‘no track suits’ notice over here. Just seems odd that they’ve gone to such specifics; given that over here those sorts of clothes are common to all manner of young people and one would expect anywhere prohibiting them to be operating an outright no t-shirts/running shoes policy.
Mar 11, 2011 at 2:15 pm rating: 2
#32
C
The Sky Bar sign becomes funner when you consider that Wednesday night is “Goth Night.”
Mar 11, 2011 at 3:32 pm rating: 6
#33
sb
the funniest thing is that they don’t even know how to spell Affliction
Mar 11, 2011 at 6:51 pm rating: 1
#34
pony girl
Who is Ed Hardy, and why does he give his shirts away to (apparently) skanky people?
Is he some sort of humanitarian?
Okay, so I checked out a few of those clothing lines (if you could call them that) and they are pretty horrible. I’ve seen worse on 6th street, though.
I think these people are to be pitied, maybe we should stop banning them from bars so that they may see all the other wonderful forms of dress that are out there for them to choose.
Plus, we can mock them!
Mar 11, 2011 at 7:37 pm rating: 2
#35
Charlie
I’ve been to Tampa. They’re eliminating 95% of the potential customer population.
Mar 12, 2011 at 3:16 pm rating: 3
#36
Daniel
I have no idea what Ed Hardy, Christian Audigier, or Tapou T means, and yes, I do think that makes me a better person …
Mar 13, 2011 at 9:11 am rating: 4
#37
Matt!
You know, they forgot to mention Fox Racing or Hollister shirts as well…
Mar 13, 2011 at 10:05 pm rating: 3
#38
baronkarza
“AFFLICITION”
Mar 13, 2011 at 10:35 pm rating: 1
#39
Kara
Frat kids? As someone who went to college in Ohio, I can assure you that ‘frat kids’ aren’t dressing like the trash on the Jersey shore.
Mar 14, 2011 at 2:28 pm rating: 2
#40
meep
So basically, just no one with shitty taste. I want to go to there.
Mar 14, 2011 at 2:57 pm rating: 1
#41
squibbles
Sky Bar totally stole that idea from Republic in New Orleans: http://racked.com/tags/republic-new-orleans
definitely a necessary precaution.
Mar 14, 2011 at 7:18 pm rating: 0
#42
Chris Peterson
So, I guess the guy John works with a.k.a “backwards hat guy” would not be allowed? I await the coffee table book edition of the ongoing chronicles of the “Backwards Hat Guy”
Mar 16, 2011 at 8:24 am rating: 0
#43
Just my 2 cents
“I’m guessing the boss is not a fan of the frat kids”
Whoa. “Frat guys” dress with respectability. You’d never catch me in Ed Hardy, Affliction, or any trash like that. When we go out we wear khakis, oxfords, and boat shoes. At least, that’s how we frat in the SEC.
Mar 16, 2011 at 6:27 pm rating: 7
#44
DarkSock
I peed in a horse once.
Mar 18, 2011 at 10:28 pm rating: 0
#45
TFM
I’m from up north but if some guy showed up in my fraternity wearing any of those brands we’d never give him a bid. He might even get kicked out the house.
Apr 6, 2011 at 9:58 pm rating: 1
#46
taylor
dear holly, the owner is a ‘frat kid’ you fucking moron
Apr 7, 2011 at 4:22 pm rating: 1
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