Now this has me confused. There was a dress code posted at another Jax Beach bar/restaurant that I posted last year. The restrictions were the most ill-concealed attempt to keep black youths out that I have ever seen. These rules, taken together, don't seem to target any single group. Anybody have an idea?
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Who defines, "excessively baggy?" This is masking for the fact that it's about race. I could be wrong, but it looks like camouflage to me.
As I wrote in the post, a nearby bar had posted a list of codes that was so obviously aimed at black youths that it was laughable. There is no greater oxymoron than clever racist. This one is, I think, larded with a few meaningless rules to allow them to put in the baggy pants one. These bars are mainly sports, beer and pickup joints with the usual low levels of IQ brought on by those three things. The racism in this area is very thinly and not very subtly hidden.
This one from a while back, in Upstate NY, is more directly about one issue that would cause cultural conflict between cranky old guys and today's kids, but I'd bet there's a note race in the reaction:
http://workingpictures.blogspot.com/2011/11/pull-up-your-pants.html
Regarding the plain white t-shirt:
"Orginally introduced to American culture as a standard issue garment for the US Navy, the tees were cotton, short-sleeved crew-necks, worn as uniform undershirts. It became common for sailors and Marines in work parties and tropical climates to remove their uniform “jacket”, wearing only the undershirt.
Following the 2nd World War, it became common to see veterans wearing their uniform trousers with their T-shirts as casual clothing. The plain white tee became even more popular after Marlon Brando wore one in the film A Streetcar Named Desire, so we can thank Hollywood for catapulting it to status as a fashionable, stand-alone, outer-wear garment."
http://sweatpantsandheels.com/2010/09/09/the-sex-appeal-of-a-plain-white-tee/
So on the more cynical side you could accuse this bar of being anti-American.
Sorry, but this pseudo-subtle racist stuff always brings out my grumpy side.
Subtly is not a strong point of a racist bar owner. They do think that they've fooled us though.
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