This evening I attempted to attend the Salsa dance at the Regent Ballroom.
I was wearing black slacks and a dressy black T-shirt featuring a nice
print of two cute treefrogs. It is one of my favorite shirts. I was
turned away because the Regent's new stricter dress code now prohibits
all T-shirts. I have a collection of T-shirts featuring such creatures as
frogs, lizards, jellyfish, and bats. They are high quality shirts
purchased at such places as zoos and museums, and they have often in the
past been part of my attire at the Regent. The decision to prohibit
T-shirts was made by one man: the Regent's owner. Let's show him that the
function of a business is to serve its customers- not to dictate to them.
Let's show him that we value variety and individual expressiveness more
than conformist snobbery. Let's boycott the Regent until this silly new
extension of the dress code is rescinded.
-Paul Patton
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