What else should have been a pleasant evening for the 25-year-old Patrycja and her girlfriends ended in a great deal of humiliation.
the Girls were rejected at their favorite disco, the 101 Club in Birmingham, because they had the wrong shoes and pantyhose on.
It tells the Birmingham Live, which also has been in contact disco eftrfølgende.
Patrycja, who do not share his last name, because she is afraid not to be able to enter other clubs in the city, telling the local media that she had taken a short white skirt on, mavebluse and open sandals with a small heel of about 5-6 centimenter.
But it was not good enough for the bouncer, who rejected her because her shoes were not high enough to get in with.
I was twisted on my ankle a few days before, so I could not have so high shoes. I still had a shoe with a heel on and a skirt, and I tried to talk my case, but I had still not come in. He said, they were not high enough.
She decided, therefore, to complain about the treatment, and it got the club to respond.
‘We take pride in being versatile in all respects’, they wrote and explained that it is often possible to get into with flat shoes.
But it was Patrycja absolutely do not agree with, and she shares her story in order to focus on the discrimination that is against women in the nightlife, because it is expected that they must dress a certain way to get into the clubs.
– It makes me feel hugely uncomfortable when I need to hear on how I should look, or what I should wear. You have not always want to have high heels on, when you just go out and have fun with your friends. You can easily look stylish and smart looking without having them on.
She believes that it is in fact often has a negative impact on women’s evening, when they dress in short dresses and high shoes, in order to be accepted in the nightlife.
– It can make you feel hugely vulnerable when you need to have a short skirt and high shoes. You often ends up with to get attention from some men, as you do not want attention from. But you can’t come in, if you don’t have it on. People they just look at you in a certain way, when you take the clothes on.
Directly to Patrycja has the club written on their rules.
‘We are sorry that you have felt discriminated against. 101 would like to be versatile. We have female guests visiting our nightclub in flat shoes, or designer sneakers, which suit to their outfit. We have a dress code, as our doorman follows. But it does not say that women should dress provocatively in order to get into’, they wrote.
It gives the 25-year-old however, not much.
– They say it’s there, but it seems now not to have given it to the doorman. My one friend had high shoes on, but also had black tights on. The bouncer said that she has not had to come in with pantyhose. We explained to him that it was cold, and asked why she had it. The gad he did not explain to us, she says.
the Girls were very embarrassed in the queue, because, apparently, they had taken it completely the wrong clothes on.
– There were some men who began to laugh at us.
Patrycja has subsequently checked the reviews of the club on the web, where more women are writing, they have experienced the same problem.
A writes: ‘I am appalled and shocked by this place. We get a group of girlfriends, and one of the girls gets told that she is not allowed to enter because she have black ankle boots on. We were told that women should have to dress and stilettos on, and to the women who had it, were not welcome’.
another writes, that they were rejected because their shoes was not high enough. Several other tells, that they were asked to leave their flat shoes on the street,
