Funny article regarding pub bans
Dress code that's 'disgusting'By Andrew Chesterton
May 17, 2007 01:00am
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A TV personality says she was rejected from a trendy city nightspot because she looked "disgusting" in her $400 dress.
Author Janella Purcell, who stars on Channel 7's Good Chef/Bad Chef and runs a Surry Hills health food cafe, was wearing a one-of-a-kind vintage dress when she tried to enter The Lincoln bar in Sydney's Kings Cross on Saturday night.
Initially told that a member of her three-person party was too intoxicated, the bouncer allegedly later conceded they were actually being rejected because of Ms Purcell's dress.
"He told me, 'Love, that's a disgusting dress'," Ms Purcell, 38, said.
"I told him it was a vintage dress and he said 'I don't care what it is, that's disgusting, you look disgusting.'
"I've worked my whole life to try to empower women and tell them they don't have to look like everyone else. But this kind of thing just reinforces the wrong idea."
Her claim comes only weeks after pub exclusion policies were put under public scrutiny when The Daily Telegraph revealed Scruffy Murphy's hotel had enforced a ban on all Pacific Islanders and Middle Eastern men in 2005.
In another case, real estate agent Waise Yusofzai is suing city nightspot The Establishment, owned by businessman Justin Hemmes, for $55,000 claiming an unfair exclusion policy. The 38-year-old said his rejection from the bar left him feeling like "half a person"
The Lincoln's manager Michelle Bowen was shocked to hear of the incident.
"In all honesty, if I found out a staff member spoke to anyone in that regard they would be immediately fired," she said.
Dolly Up boutique owner Erin Hutchings, who sold the dress to Ms Purcell, described it as unusual but very pretty.
"It's kind of kitsch, but it's sexy as well," she said.
"I think it's really funny - obviously unless you're next to naked, men just don't like it."
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