Need some shoe suggestions
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- mikotondria30
I worked in clubs for the best part of 15 years, all types, doing all jobs, promoting, djing, cloakroom, front of house, bar, cleaning, managing, and I've been to clubs and events all across the us and europe, and I honestly thought this sort of thing (no casual shoes) went out with the ark. Tasteful, rich, popular, social people, that every venue wants in them want to wear whatever shoes they like, and any club that excludes people only the basis of their footwear isn't going to perform as well as they could. Who gets in and stays and comes back is the most fundamental part of a producing, repeatable night - anyone who will go out of their way to change what shoes they'd wear to get in isn't someone that's going to do your night any good, long term. When a club enforces its notions of style and taste upon the people whose taste it should ultimately serve and court is bound to fail. I've seen it over and over and over again. It's a delicate and tremendously difficult dance to position a club brand, and absolutely nothing to do with types of shoe, whatever the music, scene, decade or city.
Do not go to this club, they've kind of made a fool out of you already, asking your peers what sort of shoes you should wear ? Sympathies if it's an event you are duty bound to attend, but if it's something aspirational, then mate - walk away and have a bit of sit-down, this aint the real thing.