"Sorry Sir, no hats"

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I live in a smallish mid-sized town in America (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) and we have a music conference once a year where 250 bands roll into town for four days. Anyway, I went to this club that I would not otherwise go to because it's one of those aspiring-to-be-like-N.Y.-dance-clubs that never features live music and the doorman would not let me in unless I checked my fedora at the coat check. I was stunned. And annoyed. "No hats" he said. When I pressed for an explanation he didn't have one. "That's the policy." I asked him if there was a Fedora GangLand War that I didn't know about. Am I just a naive rube or does this happen regularly in bigger cities? Why? I mean, I think frat boys wearing super crimped baseball caps are a fashion faux pas of the highest order but I sure as hell would never advocate them being banned from nightclubs. ???????????

― Mark M, Sunday, 3 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

they probably believed you were of the stilyagi.

― keith, Sunday, 3 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I got the same thing at a bar in Norwich ("the manager doesn't like hats"), though the doorman took no exception to my size 11 steel-toe DM's...

― Ben Squircle, Sunday, 3 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

a hat will crush a man ,boots will jsut kill him .

― anthony, Sunday, 3 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think that banning hats is sensible, judging by some of the headwear atrocities I've occasionally seen at clubs..

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 3 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Did he point to a Men Without Hats logo as he said, "That's the policy?"

― Curt, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Aw c'mon Jim, would you rather see their atrocious haircuts? I just did a search to see if Men Without Hats actually had a logo, and in fact they did. A very appropriate one that would have certainly added a bit of humor to the situation. Of course, I probably would have gotten pissed if he didn't let in my dancing midget. "Sorry Sir, no jolly, Renaissance-era looking dwarfs in THIS club."

― Mark M, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That first Men Without Hats album isn't bad, BTW. A little overwrought, but OK.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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