Hoodies ban.

Isn't banning people from wearing hoods going too far.  I mean, it's just fashion isn't it?  Crap fashion but fashion none the less. 

Yes, but to use them to hide your identity whilst comitting theft is not on, is it?

No it isn't but if peolple do that, then they should be brought to account for theft not wearing a hood. 

Yes........but the hood was a means for anonimity. By all means wear what you like but if some abuse the right then it makes sense for safeguards to be in place in certain situations, i.e. don't put the hood up in shops.

[oldspice]

Well I think it depends on HOW you wear them. For instance, at the college where I teach, I do not allow students to enter the teaching and learning environment (we're not allowed to call it a classroom in Further Ed) wearing caps covered by hoods. It's disrespectful to the purpose of meeting to share learning and ideas.

In an environment such as a shooping centre, people can feel intimidated if the wearing of such clobber is combined by general yobbish behaviour, which it often is. In our shopping centre, people are not allowed in if bare chested - they either accept the rule or go somewhere else. Likewise, many of our pubs won't let you in with trainers, shorts etc. So, fashion it may be, but if shopping centres don't want people wearing such clobber in their buildings - they have a right to ban it. 

Interesting.  This issue is about the connection between perceived behavioural tendencies based on appearance.  Always a dodgy area.

 

[loulou]

Is that why the man in the petrol station goes into panic when I wear my balaclava.

[goldencup]

[oldspice]

[kevvosa]

In an environment such as a shooping centre, people can
feel intimidated if the wearing of such clobber is combined by general
yobbish behaviour, which it often is. In our shopping centre, people
are not allowed in if bare chested - they either accept the rule or go
somewhere else. Likewise, many of our pubs won't let you in with
trainers, shorts etc. So, fashion it may be, but if shopping
centres don't want people wearing such clobber in
their buildings - they have a right to ban it. 

So no shorts in summer then? That's just mad.

Precisely Kev, a good point.

[oldspice]

No, I did not mean that people in shorts were intimidating. What I actually meant was that there are a variety of dress codes that you have to accept. Hoods worn over baseball caps, combined with yobbish behaviour is intimidating so the banning of such dress is justified. likewise, some shopping centres/pubs etc think shorts and bare chests are too casual and ban people who do not follow the dress code.

You know the British on holiday. They are the ones with their football tops on!

[oldspice]

Precisely. The British, especially the working class, has lost its taste as far as deseeing is concerned. Years ago, if we went out for the day or travelled on holiday, we wore decent clothes so that people would know you were respectable and decent. As poor as we were, we were never allowed to be scruffy, dirty or dishevelled - even when playing in the street.