Couture Clothing Banned From Vancouver Clubs and Bars

I was listening to the radio this morning and apparently several popular clothing brands have been banned from clubs and bars in Metro Vancouver, particularly those along Granville Street in Downtown. Anyone wearing t-shirts and other clothing from these couture brands will either be turned away or told to flip their shirts inside out to hide the design.

The reasoning behind this ban -- which started rolling out a couple weeks ago -- is that these brands have been associated with "gangster" activity, like the violent acts that happened at Quattro on Fourth, an East Vancouver home, and in Langley, the last of which involved a person with Hells Angels connections. Club and bar owners are cracking down to help prevent further violence.

Banned fashion labels include Ed Hardy, Xtreme Couture, and Affliction. All of these use "trendy motifs like tattoos, skulls and chains." Affliction is a brand made popular by folks like Ozzy Osbourne and Paris Hilton.

Source: Vancouver Sun

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derick said:

i cant believe vancouver is so ignorant as to ban high end clothing, being from montreal a very much more fashionable city that vancouver, this kinda thing would never happen, these real gangsters are just gonna wear oter clothing when going to the same clubs and there will be shootings again for sure, a ban on clothing will not stop that at all. What about in the summer wearing a regular tshirt showing full arms and necks of real tattoos, will these people be banned also, i dont think so. These clothes lines are brough upon from celebrities and the ufc and not gangsters, new york and LA also have gangsters and they may be wearing these clothes during shootings but at least all the other cities arnt as ignorant as vancouver as to label gangsters by the clothes they wear, i find it discusting. At homew in montreal the club scene is very much more evolved that little vancouver and these clothes for me and many are what you wear when you go out to nice places and not every day routines.

Posted at 04:32 AM, on January 25 2010

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Artemis said:

I hope nobody with any fashion sense buys Ed Hardy, ever.
That said, this is nothing new, and plenty of cities implement this kind of rule (I grew up with no white shoes in the clubs because of gang association).
If you don't want to be turned away, don't dress like a giant douchebag.
:)

Posted at 05:23 PM, on February 18 2010

Couture Clothing Banned From Vancouver Clubs and Bars

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