Paul,
Why not just wear something a little nicer than a T-shirt?
There are plenty of other places one can go dancing wearing
a T-shirt. I like the fact that people put a little effort
into dressing up at the Regent. I don't know about everyone
else but I wear T-shirts enough during the rest of the week,
no need to be wearing them while dancing too. Hope I'm not
viewed as being a conformist snob, I just like to see people
looking nice. I have no plans to boycott dancing at the Regent
or anywhere else for that matter. We're fortunate to have fun
places to go dancing. :-)
John Stone
On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 12:32:08AM -0500, patton paul wrote:
> 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 extension of the dress code is rescinded.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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