Is it cos they is white?
I returned to Zero Degrees on Saturday night. Busy, busy, busy! As expected. What I wasn’t expecting was a no-trainers policy. I didn’t think it was going to happen purely because, well, Zero Degrees seemed different to me.Â
I was ok, as I was wearing more formal looking shoes, but my (male) friend had stripes on his footwear. Fortunately, and surprisingly, after being told no, he was excused by the doorman as his trainers were black. So white trainers bad, black trainers good.  His girlfriend, incidentally, was wearing shoes with a very striking floral design and that was perfectly ok.
A ridiculous rule (like we all stare at each other’s feet, and do white trainers really spell trouble?), and one to remember.
Matt Brady on May 22nd 2007 in Culture
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John McGarvey responded on 22 May 2007 at 2:13 pm #
You have got to be joking. Where am I going to get my fix of micro-brewed beer on a Saturday night now?
As an aside, I went to that new Dogma place the other day. Silly name aside, it was excellent. I had a first-class burger, and it gets top marks for being one of the few places outside Russia where you can get Baltika on tap.
Matt Brady responded on 23 May 2007 at 4:35 am #
I’ve never heard of Baltika. I must try it
I will check Dogma out one of these evenings. They also deserve point for having a MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/dogmareading
Matt Brady responded on 23 May 2007 at 4:40 am #
Ok, they lose half a point for a typo (”Waitnig Staff”) on their website job opportunities page:
http://www.dogmabars.com/Reading.html