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Submitted by capdog on Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 12:43 | Clubs | |
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It's a pity because Society never used to stop people from dressing practically, they were always one of the 'good ones' on my list of places that allowed a bit of freedom in your choice of attire. Something that I thought was their strongest point - despite being an upper class 'high society' venue, they were down to earth, relaxed and interested in diverse expression. Every time I've been there, it's been in walkshorts. According to the guy at the door, "it's Saturday, maybe on Tuesday or Wednesday we allow shorts but not tonight". "Well buddy", I thought to myself, "this place is pretty damn empty so I don't see how it being Saturday makes such a big difference!". They should be trying to get as many customers as possible. What's the big deal? Well, for reasons of pure practicality I point-blank refuse to go out in 30 degree heat / 80% humidity in anything other than a breezy pair of walkshorts. Why the hell should guys have to wear hot, bothersome jeans when it's so uncomfortable outside? And girls get away with short skirts and open shoes, or pretty much whatever they want. Screw that. This is Durban summer, not the London West End or Hollywood Boulevard. Clubs that try be all 'upper-crust' by enforcing dress codes end up with a room full of carbon-copied jocks, all wearing black leather shoes, blue jeans and short-sleeved, white button-up shirts with pinstripe vertical lines.
Clubs that allow the freedom of expression end up with a myriad of different clothing fashions and styles inside, and it's great to see different people wearing the kind of clothes their personalities require to be comfortable, from surfers in shorts and slops, to arty types in eccentric suits and the latest outrageous catwalk styles. It's all about dressing the way you feel. So strike Society off the list (at least, on a Saturday, or when the fancy takes them). Who does that leave? Well, not many I'm afraid. Burn, Bean Bag, Taco Zulu, Spiga's, Thunderroad Rock Diner all still accept practicality as the dress code. If you agree with me and want to increase that list, start by refusing to go out in anything but walkshorts, like I do. Argue with the bouncers if they give you grief. Make it known their policies are lame. Of course, I have to pay tribute to the number one offender of the 'jock' dress code, Casablanca. The bouncers there remind me of school prefects, checking to make sure your black leather shoes are polished sufficiently, that your collar is nicely folded and that your hair is nicely combed. Bullshit, I say! [ add new comment ] |
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Ya , I agree.Why should girls get to wear whatever the hell they like , when us guys are restricted to wear hot anoying and very often uncomfortable jeans , especially in this heat....You are right Capdog...its utter BULLSHIT. And then these girls wonder why sumtimes us guys , dont feel like staying out at a club all night long,,,,,Id love to see if girls complained if they had to stand around and dance for hours on end with 'a button up shirt,jeans and smart black shoes on' that kill your feet and give you blisters. Anyway,,,,I say , If clubs keep going the way they are at the moment , with such strict dress codes for us guys , then i say they should turn those places into high class reserants, coz thats all those clothes are good for 'sitting down and having sum expensive chow' Clubs are meant to be places where you can go have fun and express yourself through your individual styles...And like you say 'there are very few places left that still let you do so. Great article 'Exellent topic' Chat 2 u all soon. [ reply ] |
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That's it exactly, I've always tried to pin down exactly what the feeling behind being told to go home and put on some shiny shoes was and now I know; school uniform. If they're trying to draw a "dress code:quality of patron" comparison then it's being done the wrong way. Trying to equate a pair of sneakers, branded boardies and vintage T to everyone's fav Bron-x, dockers and shirt says nothing about the person in the clothes. And whereas previously a line could've been drawn moentarily, the 2 'uniforms' will have similar price tags. With the trashy look most times being far more expensive. I'll never come whack on an old school track. [ reply ] |
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Ok sorry, this is slightly off-topic, but still related to the mindset of the way some clubs are run in this town. On Friday night i found myself involved in a rather precarious situation - one which was ballhairs away from my face having reconstructive surgery attempted with a fist and no knife. Some clubs (whose names DARE i mention)are claiming the right to the property beyond the inside of their club ie: the cars parked outside...I was promoting my upcoming event (at Panama Room) outside a well-known 'rave' club in Durbs and was ultimately surrounded by a couple 'roid-heads and two bouncers claiming i had no right to be there - not exactly in those words !!! I thought the days of these fucken meatheads running wild with their shrunken ballsacks and loaded guns had passed, since we're all a bit older now, but how naieve of me. It's one thing to firstly think you have the right to public property and not welcome what in this world of business is known as 'competition' - but it's another matter altogether when it comes to how one deals with a situation. After realising (which was basically from the second i was approached) that these pricks weren't happy to just give me a slap on the wrist i withdrew and assured them i would leave immediately and not put flyers on 'their' cars ... but being civil and rational are two words these monkeys can't spell and it was impossible to reason with them. Anyhow, this is not the only club that thinks the streets belong to them - BURN nightclub for fucksakes! If there's a club out there we should not be worried about it's BURN, but clearly not!! I have had agressive bouncers on my case for the same thing there - doing promo (flyers on publicly-parked cars) for an event that is not taking place there! How PATHETIC - and BURN doesn't even have one other alternative club in competition with them... Who do these people think they are to stop people from attempting to make a success of their own endeavours on public property ??? If everybody were to run around threatening whoever dare to make a business out of the same thing they do the human race wouldn't exist! Maybe they should get out of Durban into the real world and see what life is like outside of their egotistical little bubble. Its people like this (and unfortunately there are many) that give Durban the conservative/backward/'jock' mentality that it has and makes me embarassed to say i'm from here. [ reply ] |
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We actually went through this whole argument with the Burn management in 2005. They claimed the right to the whole of Clark/Umbilo road! Bands were trying to promote their gigs by putting flyers on cars, and the carguards were told to stop them. There was quite a fallout, MANY people spoke bad things about Burn for a long time. I don't think the rules have changed, but people got over it. [ reply ] |
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yeah it's ridiculous. But it's the freak that stirred shit with me in Walnut street on Friday that made me so red !!! Behaving like an immature,steroid dick. It's always so easy for them when on their own turf - a place nobody would dare serve as a witness out of fear of catching their next rest in the sugar-cane fields. One day this asshole is going to have 10 paper candys slipped in his drink and i'll be there pissing buckets from my tear ducts as he squirms in the reality of what a fuckup he is... [ reply ] |
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They can all pass into the flaming pit, where the only music played is Christina Aguilera, Shakira, P-Diddy and Patricia Lewis for eternity. [ reply ] |
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...with extra crackling... [ reply ] |
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Thing is, what right do people have to fiddle with your car in the first place? I don't want anyone playing with my windscreen wipers, even if they are just placing flyers. Car Guards are there to protect your vehicle and should rightly stop anyone from interfering with it. Sure, hand flyers out - but don't screw with our cars. Having said that, it does sound as though those bouncers went a bit overboard. Maybe they were trying to ensure you didn't return. [ reply ] |
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People putting flyers under wipers don't have time to 'fiddle' or play silly buggers with bits of cars, and a piece of paper will hardly ruin the resale value. It's not as though there are menacing posses of flyer gangs lurking in dark alleys, waiting to damage your car. After all the idea is get people interested, not piss them off. [ reply ] |
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There are very few avenues to market thru and the biggest of these is flyers. Apart from putting them in cofee shops and other such places that will allow them, vehicles seem to be the best bet. Now that the council wont let dj's and bands advertise their gigs on posters, what else is there left to do. Cant say I wouldnt mind seeing one track mike having a new arsehole torn for him by a crowd of roid head bouncers but thats another story altogether that we will submit later. (he he he...) “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” Nelson Mandela [ reply ] |
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You see, a little while ago 'the Lappies' was putting personalised flyers on cars down by Ushaka Point Rd advertising his well-muscled fingers and over-sized mouth(see his pic), particularly convenient for grazing on the under-carriage of carguards' fragrant foreskins..you know, like red-riding hood style: "all the bigger & better to knock one out for ya..." ...so anyway he gets into a situation he's never been in before: a girl molests him thinking he's a guy, as he's promoting himself on car windscreens, and since that day he gets very touchy when either ladies or flyers are mentioned. If you would like to donate money to the "FIND LAPPIES A FEMALE LAY" foundation, you can mail me on this site... 20% of proceeds go to the poor men he's infected of late... [ reply ] |
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just kidding...but yeah flyers don't harm your car - especially as i never use the wiper method - always on the driver window... And since most people wine when they receive sms' and wine when they have flyers on their cars, what right do they ever have to moan about the lack of quality gigs goin' down in Dirtbin if they never gonna know 'bout it ? [ reply ] |
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No offense taken. I'm just tired of rainy nights spent scraping wet flyers with running ink off my windscreen and fruitless searches for a bin to put the damp gunk into. [ reply ] |
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yip - in that case i would get bummed. Flyering is a job for an asshole - it really sucks. It's a job i can't even pay for somebody to do for me because it doesn't get done properly... You may as well be approaching people with second-hand toilet paper for sale as far as the way some people treat you when attempting to hand over a flyer... It's always at a time when you least want to be doing it - like between 11 and 12 at night, when most cars are at a venue and when you are most drunk ! The hit rate is soooo low it's hard to discipline one's self to go out there and do the deed... [ reply ] |
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So mike, you must still be doing the 5 knuckle shuffle then seeing as you havent had a betty in ages... he he he... Remember i is a married dood raaait... Have to agree with you about the flyer, sms and e mail thing. If people dont read the paper or get a mail or sms or come out of a club to find their car draped in the latest fashion of event advertising then how the fuk they gonna know where and what is happening in this little seaside town. As it is our peeps are very complacent and its common to hear the comments " what jol is that, triphazard? Nah i think I will get a coupla quarts of label and a bankie of poisons and just veg on the couch" In other places there are dedicated markets that hang to find out where and when the next jol is happening but not in good ol durbs. “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” Nelson Mandela [ reply ] |
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Dood is that you in your school uniform in the pic or what cuz??? “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” Nelson Mandela [ reply ] |
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i keep 'em comin'...like eat as much as you want. Why buy a book when you can join a library ?????????????????????????????????????? I know you're married, but thats the oldest trick in the book to cover for your paeodophiliac tendencies to hang out by the jungle-gym or see-saw whilst knocking one out under your duffel coat. [ reply ] |
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So sad... You all moaning and groaning about having to wear long pants...how common to want to go out in shorts. When the sun sets shorts should be banned unless u at home. You just look terribly sloppy and without any style if u wear shorts at night. I wish some other places were more strict. learn to dress properly guys [ reply ] |
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...by the fashion police... [ reply ] |
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Bwahahaha! Whatever. 100% disagree. [ reply ] |
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Bru the o keeps popping up in the funniest places talking the biggest load of shyte. Ungaaz mina baba!!! Shorts are cooler in summer and too cool in winter and jeans or longs are good for winter but suck in summer. Anyone feel like wearing jeans last nite? At 9 o clock last night I was still sweating sitting at home in SHORTS with no shirt on. So as far as putting longs on so that I can go out in style, BAH HUMBUG TO THAT SUGGESTION. Someone who is going to be uncomfortable wearing longs in the Durban summer just to look "cool" needs their head examined. But then again reptiles are cold blooded. ;) “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” Nelson Mandela [ reply ] |
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and what of ous with like really bad chicken legs dude ... some things should be covered up ;-) [ reply ] |
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4000% + 1000% more ... keep your alias guy. [ reply ] |
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Youre so sad... Jeez dude, how original, Having come back from London i take great pride in tossing my jeans to the rear of my cupboard and dusting off my mouldy shorts for the long hot steamy durban summer. Sounds like you would feel a little more at home in Milan or one one of those other shitty fashion obsessed places than in original layed back Durbs.. [ reply ] |
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Lappies has touched on a point. Our 'smart' form of dress is completely impractical because it is copied from the European ancestors. Look at school uniforms. Compulsory dark blazers, long pants and a tie in a tropical climate? Is that clever? No, it's moronic. Kids have to suffer for the sake of what we deem is 'proper' dress, a throwback from European settlers who came from the frozen wastelands of England, Netherlands, etc.. In the desert, Arabs wear practical clothes, same goes for most traditional dress, it's just the smart thing to do. [ reply ] |
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I say, dysan1 old chap, make us another G&T, there's a good man. Hell of a lot of bother with all this rumpus about kit, what? All these chaps going about in civvies on us. Wearing shorts indeed, how common, perfectly uncouth. Not quite cricket, is it? Well, tally ho and whip whip. Don't forget the cucumber sandwiches and the Pimms round the old croquet pitch.... [ reply ] |
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erm.....I like the society logo. Kiff colours and stuff... ok, ok. I know this article is pretty old. Just thought I would let you know about this jol here in joburg (maybe you have heard of it????) There is all this hype, it started kind of in the middle of last year I reckon, about FTV? They have opened Fashion TV cafes, yes, you read correctly, and they are taking over, world domination I tell you!! And only the "elite" go there and there is FTV plastered on all the "plasma screens" everywhere you look, especially for the ladies who may get a little "tipsy" and forget to stick their fingers down their throats, NOW, they have FTV to remind them throughout the evening! Clever! Its ridiculous. There is a red carpet and everything. So, you can just imagine the dress code. Ridiculous I tell you, absolutley insane. No, I have not been there....ever [ reply ] |
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man that is crazee but I understand the progression towards a full blown venue, alot of venues in Durban have plasma screens and alot tune it to FTV ! KLIKTRAK [ reply ] |
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from the looks of your logos and the talk you all talk i'm not surprised u want the shorts and all everywhere policy. suppose we need to accomodate ur culture...oh wait...there is burn... [ reply ] |
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You have been awarded one spare moment of my time - unheard of for a guru But really - from what conservative cup cake & scone party did you arrive. I'm just a meager peasant with a shocking logo and if it weren't for the fact that stepladders come in such short lengths i would be able to stretch one out, climb to the top and sniff the bottom of your feltskoen. [ reply ] |
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Yes there is FTV in joburg and CT...and the one in umhlanga opens soon. We need more upscale clubs [ reply ] |
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well in the new south african class struggle, just remember revolutions are started and won by the very people you are dissing, so enjoy the view from the top at the moment, us plebs, the general hoi poloi, will stick to our uncouth lifestyles and rock it underground style till babylon peace ;-) KLIKTRAK [ reply ] |
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but can anyone tell me if Manna is on tonite?? And whose playing? [ reply ] |
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Welcome back! Haven't heard from you in ages. Not sure about Manna. Just wanted to say hi. [ reply ] |
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