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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: dress codes
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Date: Tue, 15-Nov-83 11:41:21 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 15 11:41:21 1983
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Not being a frequenter of the sort of establishment which cares how its
clientele dresses, I don't know how widespread dress codes are.  I do know
that they are often used as a means of practicing thinly veiled discrimi-
nation.  In a couple of cases which caused big stinks in Austin, the
victims were women (at a gay bar which prohibited styles of shoes (!)
frequently worn by women) and blacks (at a disco which had an elaborate
dress code but didn't seem to enforce it for its white customers).
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