Dress Codes - give us your views!

[SAPCOR1]

how do you know how much my clothes cost were you spying on me coming out of matalan's? as for the £7 trousers,not many at my club would know that you could buy clothes that cheap it all comes down to perception,if everyone was allowed to wear jeans and tee shirts in the club house what image would that send out to perspective members looking for a more traditional club who are willing to spend £2000 to play,you call it pompous i like to call it

There is that word "traditional" again! Traditional as in 1950's traditions?

Personally I wouldn't be put off paying the quoted £2000 to join a club if the members wore t-shirts and jeans. My reasons for joining a club, £2000 or not, would be the course, locality to my house and VFM in that order.

I just don't get how people are so offended about trivial matters such as jeans or trainers. Now if the t-shirt had inflammatory words or images that are likely to offend then yes. Football tops can cause trouble but never a pair of denims, surely?

 

[triple_bogey]

Is this the same £2000 club that frowns upon guests/members arriving in vans/trucks? oo:

The older generation are too stuck in their ways to contemplate change. I accept that.

 

[sev112]

I disagree with lots of rules made by any government of the day, I say so and am allowed to
I don't see many people telling me to stop complaining and accept the rules
Indeed we have a statutory formal Opposition in government, which is constitutionally there for the reason of objecting to the rules of the day
God forbid we are ever allowed something like that in the golfing world

So all these arguments about "if you don't like the rules don't play" don't stack up
I do play, I do wear your awful dress codes and I play well, and I'm a nice guy
Why you think I am any less of a person because I think your dress codes are inappropriate and fashionably terrible is, even after the nth debate on here, beyond me

Standards of behaviour matter. Ironing your shirt says nothing about you other than that you think a person's merit is governed by their dodgy subjective views of what clothes are "smart"
Polo shirts and chinos it ain't

I would be quite happy to ask someone who is professionally competent to define "smart" to design smart golf clothes and then we can all wear that type of clothes and we could call the argument ended

So come on Mike... Get a fashion expert from somewhere in the publishing house, give them free rein to design a "smart" outfit with no constraints, and we all agree to wear it. And let's see if that solves this old chestnut

 

[SAPCOR1]

Polo shirt and chinos for golf are 50/60 years traditional and would probably frowned upon by the golfer at the turn of the 20th Century who's traditions would be heavy tweeds, stiff collar and tie

 

[Jimbooo]

I've seen a few different arguments for a dress code on here.

The argument that dress code is linked to etiquette doesn't really wash with me. I've seen players dressed in the smartest golfing attire abusing a course just as much as I've seen players in jeans doing the same.

If a member is treating the course with respect and is polite and courteous, does it really matter if they are wearing jeans if they want to?

 

[6inchcup]

Is this the same £2000 club that frowns upon guests/members arriving in vans/trucks? oo:

The older generation are too stuck in their ways to contemplate change. I accept that.

you can come in a van but you must park it on the sidecar park and not on the main members car park,what is the problem with that?

 

[SAPCOR1]

you can come in a van but you must park it on the sidecar park and not on the main members car park,what is the problem with that?

So what if a main member arrives in a van?

 

[6inchcup]

So what if a main member arrives in a van?

the same he is supposed to park on the overflow car park,some don't but get a quite word from the sec. when he sees them,i cant see anything wrong in that,one of the other clubs in town has a barrier with height restrictions so even members who have a van cant enter the club let alone park there.

 

[triple_bogey]

the same he is supposed to park on the overflow car park,some don't but get a quite word from the sec. when he sees them,i cant see anything wrong in that,one of the other clubs in town has a barrier with height restrictions so even members who have a van cant enter the club let alone park there.

And you can honestly say there's nothing wrong in that? May I ask what types of vehicles the members drive?

 

[North Mimms]

you can come in a van but you must park it on the sidecar park and not on the main members car park,what is the problem with that?

Ha ha ha!
That is the stupidest thing ever.

Basically your club is saying "accountants and lawyers ok, plumbers and electricians are a lower standard of member"

So as well as buying clothes just for golf, they want blue-collar members to buy a car just for golf too?

 

[SAPCOR1]

Ha ha ha!
That is the stupidest thing ever.

Basically your club is saying "accountants and lawyers ok, plumbers and electricians are a lower standard of member"

So as well as buying clothes just for golf, they want blue-collar members to buy a car just for golf too?

Times 2

 

[williamalex1]

Times 2

Was that a motorbike sidecar , i remember them .

 

[SAPCOR1]

Was that a motorbike sidecar , i remember them .

Like Olive from On The Buses?

 

[williamalex1]

Like Olive from On The Buses?

With the big goggles yip.

 

[SAPCOR1]

With the big goggles yip.

Awwwwwouuww I'll get yoooo But-ler

 

[williamalex1]

Awwwwwouuww I'll get yoooo But-ler

Good night Blakely. Reg.

 

[Keyser Soze]

Was watching a bit of ladies golf the other day, (may have been a replay of the Taiwain Championship because Suzann Pettersen won it) and there was one of the Korean girls (maybe Hsuan-Yu Yao???) and she was wearing trousers that a convict may have once wore and a collerless shirt with writting and badges all over it.

Now, i personally don't mind that, live and let live i say, aslong as the person looks smart, no frayed cut off jeans etc, but if she can get away wearing stuff like that then i don't personally understand why things like metal tabs on trousers (if i remember rightly) being a no-no.

 

[Hacker Khan]

Ha ha ha!
That is the stupidest thing ever.

Basically your club is saying "accountants and lawyers ok, plumbers and electricians are a lower standard of member"

So as well as buying clothes just for golf, they want blue-collar members to buy a car just for golf too?

6inchcup is what's called on internet forums a troll, so don't worry about it. No one is really like that.

 

[stevie_r]

6inchcup is what's called on internet forums a troll, so don't worry about it. No one is really like that.

I'm not sure he is TBH, yes he has a very traditional/ old fashioned approach but it is genuine I believe.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Can I just point out to the many people who have said that is not hard or expensive to wear the designated golf clobber, then that kind of means that any ne'er-do-well can do it. Hence the fact that someone is wearing the designated golf clobber is no indication of the moral fibre of that person, as it is apparently so easy to do.

So what is the point of having a dress code that is allegedly so easy to comply with that it no longer becomes a way of differentiating between the good types and the scum of society? So you may as well get rid of it. Q.E.D

I would actually respect someone's honestly who came on here and said part of the reason they want to keep existing dress codes is to make golf clubs less appealing to join and to maintain the aura of stuffiness, so they can keep anyone that does not conform to their view of what a golfer should dress like away. Which means the existing mostly socially,racially,sartorially and genderly (made up word) homogeneous members can enjoy their games in peace.

Socialist worker

It's nothing to do with cost, class, job or anything like that, it's just a dress code that is ridiculously easy and inexpensive to adhere to. I really really really don't see what the issue with it is. I don't think jeans should be worn on the golf course because they are probably the most inappropriate clothing for what is an athletic movement that I can think of. If I thought it was because people who wear jeans are in some way inferior to me then I'd think I was inferior to me which would probably mean I had some kind of mental issue.

Why anyone would think this has anything to do with class I don't know, it's just a dress code like any other sport has.