Life In 19x19

Javaness2 wrote:I wonder what people make of the European Chess Union's new dress code policy. It's gotten quite a bit of attention in the media, mainly because it affords the opportunity of placing some female funbag pictures into the article - see example (worksafe)
The actual reasons for introducing the code were down to making players look smart for top flight sponsored events.

In events like the World Amateur, there is a dress code, which a lot of the participants just totally avoid. Do you think dress codes are a good idea or not? (Try not to mention boo-boos in your explanations)

Note that the "funbag picture" in the article is from a linked story on a German dentist who clearly does not agree with the idea that there is no effect.

"A dentist and her nurses in Germany have reportedly changed their uniforms to cleavage-maximising 'Alpine lounge'-themed outfits in a supposed bid to ease patients' fears.

According to Metro, Dr Marie-Catherine Klarkowski came up with the idea for herself and her ten assistants after visiting an Oktoberfest event featuring barmaids in revealing 'dirndls'.

Klarkowski said: "The most important thing is to take away patients' fear. The sight of cleavages gets patients narcotised and distracted from the pain rather quickly..."

hyperpape wrote: Second button from the top open seems to be a pretty ordinary norm, and one that applies to men too. You occasionally see someone showing a bit too much chest hair.

This reminds me of the one and only occasion when I played bridge against the legendary Giorgio Belladonna; he had about five buttons from the top open

Esu wrote:Does this mean Cho Chikun will have to start combing?

I just changed my mind. This dress code is a terrible idea.

Guess you'll have to play her where they don't have dress codes.

shapenaji wrote:Excellent response to this issue that I read on a friend's fb feed:
(Paraphrased)
"If we have to cover up, then the men need to bathe"

This is a bigger problem at Go tournaments than what people wear imo.

Ortho wrote:

shapenaji wrote:Excellent response to this issue that I read on a friend's fb feed:
(Paraphrased)
"If we have to cover up, then the men need to bathe"

This is a bigger problem at Go tournaments than what people wear imo.

The dress code does specify "not stinking of BO"

Imho, anyone who believes the correct way to ensure the fulfillment of social norms (basic decency, basic hygiene, some limits to drug use etc.) is making up some strange tournament rules deserves a public whipping.

Seriously, even with a rule in place the necessity of an awkward lecture to the "offender" remains, and this is what produces the problem to begin with. Express your disgust in time, shame people, who seriously misbehave and aren't just a little quirky, but you surely don't need the backing of a stupid rule to do all that.