Qantas Club Dress Standards...Stubbies, singlet and thongs....What the???

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At home I wear sketcher go walk or bare feet at times on our immaculate fully tiled floors, when travelling just nice comfortable easy on/off shoes and always clean socks, thongs nope.
 
drewbles said:
The main reason i hate 'sandals' (better term, Thongs has too many different meanings!) is in case of emergency. I'd rather be caught in a take-off emergency where I had to evacuate wearing closed-toe shoes, than slip on beach wear.

Each to their own of course, it's just a silly thing with me (I also won't take my shoes off until we reach cruising altitude, and always put them back on at top of descent).
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Me too !

When I was flying (GA) it was made very clear that good shoes will be worn - including passengers.
 
Not QP, but fellow AFFer's mum has said there's someone in the VA lounge who doesn't have a cost which covers up enough.

I'll leave it there.
 
Can't believe a lot of the opinion on this.

i travel a lot, and I have no I ssue wearing shorts, shirt and thongs on flights and in lounges, F, J whatever.

How can what I be wearing possibly affect anyone else, my clothes are always, clean , I shower regularly, so how can it be offensive that I wear shorts and thongs?

Im on a plane to get to a destination, most often it's 8 hours plus, I go for comfort, not some fashion parade to please others.
 
footy99 said:
I reckon no shirt would do it. Or no pants. Or something really blatantly offensive. Not sure about no shoes. Might depend if they notice at the front.
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That would be the standard for entry then, right?

Can't say I've seen anyone bounced from a lounge because of their attire....!
 
trippin_the_rift said:
So.... who's going to test out to see how poorly you can dress before you're not allowed in?
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As a P1, I think you've got to dress down and see how far you get ;)

drewbles said:
The main reason i hate 'sandals' (better term, Thongs has too many different meanings!) is in case of emergency. I'd rather be caught in a take-off emergency where I had to evacuate wearing closed-toe shoes, than slip on beach wear.

Each to their own of course, it's just a silly thing with me (I also won't take my shoes off until we reach cruising altitude, and always put them back on at top of descent).
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You raise a good point I'd like to take apart. I like to dress to the aircraft type I'm flying. For example, on a plane with 'slides' I've been told the slides can be quite abrasive, so long trousers makes sense, and of course, closed in shoes goes well with long trousers. But I often find myself on Dash-8's, which don't have slides, and travel to hot destinations... so shorts and sandals if I like, are acceptable.

If they're acceptable for emergency evacuation from a plane, so should they be in the lounge, or at least the lower of the two lounges :p
 
BVT said:
Outside of the beach or your own backyard, stubbies and thongs are not, in my view acceptable.

In the QP or on the aircraft absolutely unacceptable. I do not thing everyone should wear suits, but show some respect peeps!
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Absolutely. There has to be a standard set and maintained although it's just possible that some of the great unwashed have more points and status than us traditionalists can imagine. While Bryan Gray opened the skies for everyone with Compass, those unwashed swarmed aboard his 717's ready to be picked up at the other end by best mate Barry in his beige Valiant and transported straight to the bbq. The invite said come as you are.

The offspring of those new air travelers are the ones who now carry on board their take-away fast food and devour it during take off and the smell of fat wafts through the cabin for all of us to enjoy.

Pride in personal appearance? What's happened? It's not a competition to see who can look the trashiest but surely, even a pair of runners (with Odour Eaters thank you) and a shirt and shorts looks a little better than grossly undersized stubbies and a T shirt that has shrunk so much it's unable to restrain the beer gut anymore.
 
Ozvirginuk said:
Having read this thread form start to finish, I have to say I find it a little bit scary that such debate has been entered into.

I'm not sure if we're all aware, but we live in a free country, and we are allowed to dress how we like. Sure the Qantas Club and Other QF lounges publish certain "standards" that they believe to be acceptable, but at the end of the day, they (lounge dragons) are the judge, jury and executioner with respect to that decision.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to wear any form of comfortable casual clothing when in the lounge or flying on an aircraft. How can anyone possibly be offended by someone wearing stubbies, singlet and thongs? Would you also be offended if you saw someone wearing a suit that was from Lowes rather than Hugo Boss?

Travelling is best done with the traveller feeling as comfortable as possible. As long as I'm not seeing anyone's private bits, then I'm not going to be offended. I wear what is comfortable for the journey I'm taking. I don't care if I'm flying J (usually), or Y, I dress in the same way. When I fly J, I'm no better than those in Y, and when I'm in the lounge, my clothes don't make me any more or less intelligent than anyone around me. (as was implied by earlier poster)

This type of snobbery is crazy. It takes all sorts, from all walks of life, and all variants of fashion to make up our society, which are in turn, the travelling public... There are way more important things to care about.. If someone's behaviour is offensive, then sure get upset, but you simply can't be offended by someone dressing too casually.

I travel often, for both work and pleasure. For work, I'm in a suit, and it's a miserable and uncomfortable ride (not to mention HOT).. For pleasure, I wear casual. Many a trip back from BNE on a Sunday afternoon has seen me in the BNE J lounge in shorts and a singlet (surf style), and there have been MANY other patrons dressed similarly. BNE is a hot city... polo shirts and chinos (YUK) are too warm for me (and iMHO one of the most unfashionable items of clothing EVER), but, I'm not bothered if you want to wear them. I'm not judging you.. I'm too busy not actually caring !!

One thing this thread has made me conscious of though, is that next time I'm sitting comfortably in the BNE J lounge on a Sunday afternoon, I may very well be being judged, and causing offense while minding my own business....

Rant Over

Oz
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Could not agree more, very well said !
 
STD Int J lounge, now: tracksuit with crotch down to knees and bare feet!! Had to have a private chuckle :-)
 
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I can still remember the guy with a tank top on sitting in the next chair alongside me as he lifted his arms to stretch to give me a whiff of his BO and show me his underarm jungle, I noted he had an old pair of worn out thongs on, yep nothing like a bit of classic decorum in the lounge.
 
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