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Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
Another dress code issue
This coming Saturday I’m attending an industry awards presentation night with some colleagues, I’m not up for an award obviously just there for the free the food and beer
It’s at Doncaster race course, starts at 12 ish and goes on until late so will be quite messy I imagine, dress code is smart casual. I’m not suiting and booting just a pair of chinos and a shirt.
So trainers yay or nay?
Surely a perfect day for spikeless golf shoes, comfy, well suited to the conditions and smarter than trainers
bobmac
Major Champion
Definitely not trainers.
Smart casual to me means no jeans, t-shirt or trainers.
You probably could wear trainers and nothing would be said but I'd bet it would be noted.
Scruffy oik, not upper management material.
If they are providing free food and beer, I'd make the effort and I'd wear a pair of slacks, smart shoes, open neck office shirt and jacket.
Smart casual to me means no jeans, t-shirt or trainers.
You probably could wear trainers and nothing would be said but I'd bet it would be noted.
Scruffy oik, not upper management material.
If they are providing free food and beer, I'd make the effort and I'd wear a pair of slacks, smart shoes, open neck office shirt and jacket.
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Generational difference
. Trainers can easily be smart now, are considered okay to wear. I've worn trainers in every golf club bar 2 this year post round (I always check the dress code and only 2 excluded them completely)
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
…but not always and not by everyone…(see the two clubs you mention)Generational difference
Fade and Die
Medal Winner
What colour trainers? Dark blue New Balance, classic and understated
If the sole is dark then go for it... If the sole is white then its a no from me
bobmac
Major Champion
I agree, but upper management will likely to be ''less young''
Maybe, maybe not
. Times change and that is a judgement call for @Beezerk to make. It wasn't long ago that tattoos were a strict no no. Now, there are only a small number of jobs where a visible tattoo would stop you climbing the ladder.
Beezerk
Money List Winner
Not upper management material?
I'm just a grunt albeit a senior grunt, I have absolutely zero interest in getting into management
Do a Google search for what smart casual means in 2023, its different now to what it was in 1983
Orikoru
Tour Winner
I'm pretty sure this is the opposite of what smart casual means. I hear smart casual and the first thing I think is ok great, I'll be wearing jeans then.
GB72
Money List Winner
I think it is a generational thing. I see golf gear as pretty much the sporting version of smart casual, trousers (can be as relaxed as a chino but not as relaxed as cargo) a collared shirt (I would wear a proper shirt but but appreciate polo shirts are accepted) and shoes and not trainers. I take smart casual as one step down from a suit and have even seen it interpreted as needing a jacket. Then again, it covers a pretty broad spectrum. If I was going to a work related smart casual event, it would be proper shoes and a jacket. A special event like a wedding and I would be similar though I may lose the jacket.
bobmac
Major Champion
I would say there are 3 categories
Smart.....jacket and tie
Smart casual....slacks, jacket, no tie
Casual...jeans, t-shirt, trainers.
Just my opinion.
Fade and Die
Medal Winner
Okay I think that's the Trainers covered... Now this shirt your thinking of wearing, long or short sleeves? 
Plain or patterned? If patterned, how fun is the pattern?Okay I think that's the Trainers covered... Now this shirt your thinking of wearing, long or short sleeves?
HeftyHacker
Well-known member
I'd interpret this as chinos or smart jeans, shirt and just some smart, plain footwear - be that trainers or shoes - of fairly neutral colour (white, black, brown or grey).
For me personally I'd probably just go blue or white shirt and I'd probably wear a jumper of some description... so I didn't have to iron the shirt
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For me personally I'd probably just go blue or white shirt and I'd probably wear a jumper of some description... so I didn't have to iron the shirt
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bobmac
Major Champion
You don't see cuff links much these days
Beezerk
Money List Winner
Okay I think that's the Trainers covered... Now this shirt your thinking of wearing, long or short sleeves?
Christ tough school
Plain long sleeve shirt although I will have the sleeves rolled up, and just to irritate Bobmac I’ll be wearing a t shirt underneath it
bobmac
Major Champion
Plain long sleeve shirt although I will have the sleeves rolled up, and just to irritate Bobmac I’ll be wearing a t shirt underneath it
Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
I think Smart casual means the flip flops with the bottle opener in the sole 
