Out f****** rageous
August 2, 2011 –
Im being a laggard again I know. I am not an early adapter (marketing folk will know what the hell I am talking about here). This was a story that ran last week.
I talked and talked and mentioned and commented about it to so many people and kept saying, I will write a blog post about that I will, so here it is, better late than never.
What I speak of is almost the unspeakable.
A perfectly respectable (well dressed) man goes into a club, a private club which he has paid good grog money to join, mind; only to be, not just cast out but expelled, dear ones, cast out like an undesirable.
Why? Because he had the audacity (where have I heard that word before? hahaha!) to wear a suit and tie. What a cheek!, the bounder!! What a bloody liberty! (in the voice of Nan aka Catherine Tate)
Has the world gone totally mad?
This silly club, the Soho Club, says that they only want ‘creative types’ there. ‘Cool not school‘ they texted him. How naff is that? I bet they added that revolting pmsl at the end too. Inverted snobbery is not creative and it certainly is not ‘cool’.
So cropped cargo pants, scruffy t-shirts, and Christ knows what they wear on their hooves is the order of the day is it?, the uniform de jour. That is the correct dress code for this establishment. Apparently.
You see the problem with enforcing a dress code, especially if you are trying to avoid ‘old school’ is that you become the enforcers of apparel and rules and regulations, things that you previously despised, apparently.
The suit wearer’s then become the subversives and then, well then the ‘casual wearers’ become ‘the establishment’. Have they thought this through do you think? Methinks they didn’t like being told what to wear at school and its payback time.
I have a solution; all suit and tie wearers (with nice, crisp shirts and cufflinks) will be automatically invited to join Le Club de Rhia. That sounds awfully exotic doesnt it? I’ll get my maracas out :)
Oh and do forget what that rascal Groucho said ‘I dont want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member’
He was just kidding…. he was, honestly.




