Does anyone know if Bar Matrix has a dress code? I don't want to get turned away 'cause of a pair of trainers.

Thanks

well most places on a weekend do smart casual which would maybe accept smart trainers but to be honest most people just look better when they wear proper shoes, trainers are a bit scruffy, and a lot of places dont accept trainers at all so you are safer just wearing shoes!

My boyf has an allergy to proper shoes lol

The offical line from Matrix is no sport wear, all else fine.

but to be honest most people just look better when they wear proper shoes, trainers are a bit scruffy

LOL - are you my mum ?

well most places on a weekend do smart casual which would maybe accept smart trainers but to be honest most people just look better when they wear proper shoes, trainers are a bit scruffy, and a lot of places dont accept trainers at all so you are safer just wearing shoes!

i hardly know any places that requires just shoes? which places do you mean? and trainers are only scruffy when u dont clean them - ive got enough smart trainers.

well most places on a weekend do smart casual which would maybe accept smart trainers but to be honest most people just look better when they wear proper shoes,

Tend to find that it's the places that have a 'shoes only' rule attract all the idiots and the trouble. Lots of people in white shirts spoiling for a fight..

Tend to find that it's the places that have a 'shoes only' rule attract all the idiots and the trouble. Lots of people in white shirts spoiling for a fight..

This is quite true.

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Tend to find that it's the places that have a 'shoes only' rule attract all the idiots and the trouble. Lots of people in white shirts spoiling for a fight..
i would quite disagree, places allowing trainers usually means trouble in my opinion, plus why would you want to go somewhere that people are allowed to waltz in in scruffy old trainers...seems a bit chavvy to me, fair enough to a smart pair of trainers but not some horrid ones you wear during the day.

I am nobody's mother, I just like people to look half decent when they go out, and no sportswear, are trainers not classed as sportswear??So thats bar matrix that won't accept trainers! Walkabout don't, Crystal dont, most nightclubs don't!

well ive been in all those bars with trainers on, so what u on about?

all the places that usually require shoes are generally cheesy, towny places with ben sherman crew in force - that aint for me, theres plenty of cool bars that are chav free, and guess what............u can wear trainers!

I am nobody's mother, I just like people to look half decent when they go out, and no sportswear, are trainers not classed as sportswear??So thats bar matrix that won't accept trainers! Walkabout don't, Crystal dont, most nightclubs don't!

Perhaps you just like being told what you can and can't wear on a night out, personally I like to make my own mind up, and if places won't let me in wearing what I want to wear (and insist I look like a Top Man / Top Shop clone instead) then, frankly, thats not the kind of place I want to go to, and I don't.

I don't think anyone with even a basic grasp of modern fashion would consider most of todays trainers as "sportswear", you don't play football in £200 pair of trainers.

Tend to find that it's the places that have a 'shoes only' rule attract all the idiots and the trouble. Lots of people in white shirts spoiling for a fight..

Don't forget lime green and orange shirts too!

well most places on a weekend do smart casual which would maybe accept smart trainers but to be honest most people just look better when they wear proper shoes, trainers are a bit scruffy, and a lot of places dont accept trainers at all so you are safer just wearing shoes!

What exactly are "smart trainers?" Just curious:huh:

Do they have to be "in fashion?" (whatever that means!)

And, even if you have smart trainers on, isn't it down to the "mood of" Doorstaff at the end of the day? :suspect:

alright guys, im just going on what i have been told and the places me and my frineds have been turned away from for wearing trainers, i didnt realise this was a slagging match, all i did was post my opinion to try and help someone out and you've all just completely slagged me off, sorry that none of you know how to phrase your comments constructively....:cool:

you may not play football in a £200 pair of trainers but i thought you played football in astro shoes, or football boots, depending on what you are playing on, you may have a pair of running shoes that cost £200....

i dunno about him but my "smart trainers" dont cost £200! But what people are trying to say is.........shoes are towny, we aint no tonwies - leave your ben sherman attitude at home and slip on your nike pumps and go boogie. :)

you may not play football in a £200 pair of trainers but i thought you played football in astro shoes, or football boots, depending on what you are playing on

My point exactly, fashion "trainers" are not "sports wear", if someone turned up at bar Matrix in a pair of football boots, then fair enough, but a pair of Prada sneakers is a different thing.

You will normally get away with a dark pair of trainers if they look smart, just dont turn up in a pair of white addidas or some Nike air max with mad colours on them (Think they are called TN's or something like that!) :)

yeah i get that, all i meant to say was a couple of friends went out and got turned away from the places i mentioned one was wearing dunlop pumps and another was wearing some kind of velcrow trainers (not kiddie ones) kind of retroey type and they were both turned away for wearing trainers..i didnt mean like rockprt chav shoes i just meant like a decent pair of shoes!! I AM NOT A CHAV either as people may have thought that i was trying to make out that i was..i am definately not.

In conclusion to this thread why don't you phone up matrix and ask, that way no one gets slagged off for trying to help! (that wasn't aimed at all of the people who posted)

And nick2 i wear what I like on a night out, and I do not end up like a topshop clone or any other shop clone...I'm cool...ish :hihi:

shef chick, that was what i was trying to say!!
THANK YOU!

So shoes are towny and trainers are chav.

Looks like i'll be wearing sandals or just socks to go out then.

So shoes are towny and trainers are chav.

Looks like i'll be wearing sandals or just socks to go out then.

Or bare feet.....:hihi:

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In conclusion to this thread why don't you phone up matrix and ask, that way no one gets slagged off for trying to help! (that wasn't aimed at all of the people who posted)

If you look, my second post gave the offical line after I finally found a working phone number and asked a member of staff. Case closed me thinks.