HONG KONG’S PRETENTIOUS MEMBERS ONLY CLUBS AND DAFT DRESS CODES

I really fail to understand certain “dress codes”- especially in 2014 and where a number of private, members-only clubs wish to cling to the past and Hong Kong’s pukka colonial days and come up with daft rules like NO HATS ALLOWED. But why?

I understand casinos not allowing in those wearing caps and hats as there have been plenty of stories of cameras being smuggled in to try and attempt all types of trickery to “beat the house”.

But why do clubs like the Hong Kong Football Club, the HK Cricket Club and so many of these gawdawfully pretentious, pseudo everything private clubs with some of the most boring, pretentious people with their heads up their bums insist on these rules?

The Foreign Correspondents Club once had this rule, but saw the folly of their ways, had a Eureka Moment, and decided to enter the 21st century.

But having lunch yesterday at the HK Football Club- hardly one of the greatest private clubs in the world with very average food and a cold, austere atmosphere- and being asked to remove my hat and making me feel like a pariah, made me question the manager as to the reason for this rule. He had no idea.

So, I pressed the idea like a cat playing with a cockroach:

If women can wear hats and dine here, why not men?

What if Brad Piit came here wearing a hat? Would he be asked to take it off?

The HK Football Club, the HK Cricket Club and every other club that cling to these rules without even knowing why they exist show just how many complicate the most simple of things and with executive committees having way too much time on their hands.

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