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February 9th, 2011 at 5:29:02 PM permalink
So how do you guys prefer to dress when hitting the casino. ( I'm guessing this has been asked before but I have no idea how to search the forums)

What form of dress would attract the most/least amount of attention at the tables.
Do the staff treat you differently depending on what you wear?

Obviously some places won't let you go completely barefoot, many have a dress code, so when I say casual I mean the lowest form of dress they would accept.

Thoughts?
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February 9th, 2011 at 6:00:51 PM permalink
There is a wide range of acceptable dress. How the majority is dressed depends on the time and location. The higher the nightly rate for a room, the more likely you are to see men with coats. In general on the Strip, wearing a dress shirt and slacks is good just about anywhere. Polo shirts and jeans are pretty much the lowest acceptable casual wear, but T-shirts and shorts are not turned away.

Downtown, a shirt with a collar is overdressed. T-shirts and shorts are closer to the norm.
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February 9th, 2011 at 6:13:36 PM permalink
Quote: Casuist

So how do you guys prefer to dress when hitting the casino. ( I'm guessing this has been asked before but I have no idea how to search the forums)

What form of dress would attract the most/least amount of attention at the tables.
Do the staff treat you differently depending on what you wear?

Obviously some places won't let you go completely barefoot, many have a dress code, so when I say casual I mean the lowest form of dress they would accept.

Thoughts?



I like to be "business casual" say a dockers-style pants and some kind of collared shirt, golf or otherwise. But I dress like this most places I go to. At work I have been called out on the occasion that I wore jeans just because I felt like wearing them. Woman asked me what the occasion was! I didn't think anyone noticed much less would care to mention it.

Personally I feel most of America needs a lesson in how to dress when you go out.

BTW: I have been told if you want to "maintain cover and avoid heat" to NOT dress this way. Seems most counters like to wear a sport jacket and nice pants and shirt to "not fit the mold." I think most counters just prefer to look nice and dress the part.
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February 9th, 2011 at 6:57:21 PM permalink
Quote: Casuist

So how do you guys prefer to dress when hitting the casino. ( I'm guessing this has been asked before but I have no idea how to search the forums)



I don't recall a thread on this topic. For searching the forum simply click on the Searh function near the top towards the right.

Anyway. I do recall seeing a lot of people, mostly women, dressed up nicely in the evening, but mostly near restaurants and night clubs. The casinos seem to stay more casual 24/7. Of course sometimes the well-dressed stray to the casino.
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February 9th, 2011 at 7:15:29 PM permalink
In Vegas, the only dress code is "not naked". Any dress is acceptable anywhere, in the absence of a specific dress code for a restaurant or nightclub. After all, many visitors have been walking around in the 170-degree heat, many of them have been awake for 36 hours, many of them no longer have functioning cerebrums, and so forth. Everybody's gonna look pretty "casual" after a while.

Myself, I dress in Modern American Homeless Person Casual. I would NEVER wear nice, or even decent clothes to a casino--not as long as there are pigarette smokers, random drunks barfing in a parabola trajectory, and an inch-thick layer of crud on just about every surface. As far as how I look--well, the last thing I'm in there for is to impress somebody.
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February 9th, 2011 at 7:20:53 PM permalink
ive gambled in board shorts and flipflops many times. there is no dress code as far as im concerned.
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February 9th, 2011 at 7:22:42 PM permalink
Quote: mkl654321

Myself, I dress in Modern American Homeless Person Casual. I would NEVER wear nice, or even decent clothes to a casino--not as long as there are pigarette smokers, random drunks barfing in a parabola trajectory, and an inch-thick layer of crud on just about every surface.



And I thought Howard Hughes was dead.
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February 9th, 2011 at 7:24:13 PM permalink
Quote: Nareed

And I thought Howard Hughes was dead.



Actually, Howard Hughes spent much of the latter part of his life (the "Desert Inn Era") completely naked.
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February 9th, 2011 at 7:42:42 PM permalink
About 8 years ago, my nephew, who was 22 at the time, took a cross country trip with his buddies. One of the items he packed, was a tuxedo. His buddies had suits. They wanted to play at the high limit tables, as he says, "James Bond Style." LOL.


You'll find dress codes at the clubs and some of the restaurants. But the casino will take anybody's money.

When I was there in September, on two days I wore T-Shirt, shorts and sandals. Nobody said anything. Of course, toward evening I changed, but that was more because it got cool in the evening.

Will the dealers or floor give you more respect if you're dressed nice? The floor *might* give you a slightly better comp rating, but that's about it.
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February 9th, 2011 at 8:19:22 PM permalink
Quote: DJTeddyBear

The floor *might* give you a slightly better comp rating, but that's about it.



Well I am packing my wedding tuxedo later this month, as I have found no other occasion to wear it since I got married 3 years ago
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February 9th, 2011 at 8:53:46 PM permalink
Quote: mkl654321

In Vegas, the only dress code is "not naked".



I'd like to think there would be a naked casino somewhere. Surely, someone somewhere would have created one.
Would certainly make it a lot harder to bring in weapons and rob the place.

Personally I just love dressing up. So I'll do it anyway when I go out anywhere. Well, not the beach, gym or anything like that obviously.
I just think us guys should put in more effort sometimes. It's a bit one sided at the moment.
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February 9th, 2011 at 9:22:59 PM permalink
I dress medium casual. But I would dress up or down depending on where I was playing; if I was playing in a dirty casino where people were throwing up I would probably dress casual. Or play somewhere else, either one.
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February 9th, 2011 at 9:32:51 PM permalink
Quote: Casuist

I'd like to think there would be a naked casino somewhere. Surely, someone somewhere would have created one.


I just searched around, and it appears there's a lot of people who want one, but no real one.
Business opportunity right here.

Personally I would like to play a game of porn betting someday. It's like sports betting, but with actors making out behind a glass partition, and you can place all sorts of wagers, from a simple bet on come to various prop bets and other sucker bets...
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February 9th, 2011 at 9:42:05 PM permalink
Hooter's has a pretty strict dress code.
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February 9th, 2011 at 9:45:10 PM permalink
I dress to impress, buy in for way more than I expect to gamble and bet a lot when a pretty lady sits at my table. I like attracting as much attention as possible.
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February 9th, 2011 at 9:57:19 PM permalink
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the Hard Rock as an evening dress code. I think it is just "smart casual," but they probably express it differently.
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February 9th, 2011 at 10:44:58 PM permalink
Normally when i am playing casual unless my wife and I have just had dinner then it would be dressed.
I understand some worry about cigarette smoke ruining their clothes but my wife and I bought a clothes washer and it does wonders.
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February 9th, 2011 at 10:57:32 PM permalink
Quote: Wizard

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the Hard Rock as an evening dress code. I think it is just "smart casual," but they probably express it differently.



I don't believe they do in the casino but I could be wrong.
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February 10th, 2011 at 12:48:07 AM permalink
According to a former Vegas floorperson in an article at Green Chip:

"Do not dress up. I can remember reading something in a BJ book by a well known BJ author that suggests dressing up to play the part of a gambler. It's false. Anyone wearing a leather jacket gets automatically counted down where I worked."

I agree. Dress like you're going to play golf on a Tuesday in Cleveland, and they'll never notice you.
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February 10th, 2011 at 12:54:45 AM permalink
Dress code of one of our Australian casinos:
To ensure the comfort and enjoyment of all patrons, a minimum dress standard of smart casual attire
and footwear is required at all times.

So no sportswear, beachwear or tracksuits. Must wear long pants.

There are a few clubs here that allow you to wear shorts and "flip flops" before a certain time, usually 6pm. Then by that time you would either have to leave or throw on some long pants and shoes.
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February 10th, 2011 at 4:24:54 AM permalink
Quote: Casuist

dress standard of smart casual attire



I'm sure my wife knows what that means, I have no idea. Casual to me is silk pajamas, like Hugh Hefner..
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February 10th, 2011 at 6:18:23 AM permalink
Quote: Casuist

So how do you guys prefer to dress when hitting the casino.

Well, I look like a bum no matter what I'm wearing so it never matters to me. It strikes me as weird for people vacationing in Vegas to do a laundry or send something out to a dry cleaners via the valet or any other method.

In the casino, you are judged mainly by the color of the chips and their apparent number. Some security guards have approached a homeless-looking bum only to get a waive-off from the pit boss when the "bum" pulls out from his lint-filled pockets a couple of stacks of black chips.

These days the Nightclub Set seems to be all agog over grooming: mens barber shops that charge a fortune, face lifts for men, etc. So maybe the doorman at a trendy club will reject the ill-groomed male who has too few hot babes with him or has hot babes who are not nearly naked and slutty looking, but in the casino they don't much care. Its a place for you to lose money and as long as your feets are shod your good to go.

Now sure, if you is planning on playing Big Table Baccarat you are expected to be dressed a bit on the tonier side, that is why the Baccarat crew is in Evening Dress and there is that great big chandelier.

So unless you contemplate an ultra trendy club wherein you get to spend six hundred dollars per bottle of booze or unless you contemplate Big Table Baccarat at a high end Mega Resort, don't worry about such things as how you are dressed.

If you are a young female... its a casino, not a convent. Don't show a little, show alot! If you are sporting a relatively high tan line so that you can go out on dates showing a little white without really showing much, that is fine for back home, but in Vegas you show alot of white!

If you are a rich male... its tha same in Vegas as anywhere else: you show money.

In Hollywood, you can order without looking at the menu if your last picture was a hit, but in Vegas, they don't care if you've had a hit recently or not, they only care if you still have any money left from that hit, no matter how long ago it was. So in Malibu you can look like you just got off your yacht, in Vegas you can look like a yacht owner or a yacht's deckhand as long as you've got a fat bankroll.
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February 10th, 2011 at 6:49:58 AM permalink
In 1978, when casinos were just coming to Atlantic City, they had dress codes. After 6pm men had to wear a coat and tie and women had to be in either a dress or pants suit. During the day you could get away with slacks and a nice shirt but in the evenings you had to dress up.

I kinda liked it. It made everyone look like they were high-rollers. The dress code lasted about a year before they gave up trying to enforce it.

The last time I was in Tunica I saw a woman at the buffet who was wearing pajama pants and a raggedy old t-shirt, probably the one she slept in. It was disgusting.
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February 10th, 2011 at 7:01:19 AM permalink
Quote: EvenBob

Quote: Casuist

dress standard of smart casual attire

I'm sure my wife knows what that means, I have no idea. Casual to me is silk pajamas, like Hugh Hefner..


I think it means to dress casual / comfortable without looking like a slob.

Pajamas won't cut it. Silk pajamas, might. Add a smoking jacket and you're in.
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February 10th, 2011 at 7:05:36 AM permalink
Heh, fun question!

I usually wear smart cazh, not necessariy because it's a casino, but because that's how I usually dress anyway. I'm no metrosexual, but because of my line of work, I do have to look smart a lot.

That said, I would wear anything in a casino if I had a purpose outside of it, meaning, I once played $25 BJ for 30 min. or so in my swim trunks because I was meeting some folks by the pool at a certain time. And, I've played slots or PGP in a suit because of a party or two I had to go to. And, I've played poker in hiking paraphernalia. Etc, etc, etc.

But pajamas or the like? Only to pay a lost debt. I once had to wear a flabby dildo around my neck for as long as it took a security guy to kick us out or someone to tell me to take it off. I was hoping it would be about 5 minutes, but it turned out to be around 3-4 hours. I lost a bet over an NCAA tourney game.
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February 10th, 2011 at 9:38:38 AM permalink
Quote: Ayecarumba

There is a wide range of acceptable dress. How the majority is dressed depends on the time and location. The higher the nightly rate for a room, the more likely you are to see men with coats. In general on the Strip, wearing a dress shirt and slacks is good just about anywhere. Polo shirts and jeans are pretty much the lowest acceptable casual wear, but T-shirts and shorts are not turned away.

Downtown, a shirt with a collar is overdressed. T-shirts and shorts are closer to the norm.




Well, I vote they turn away GUYS wearing shorts.
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February 10th, 2011 at 9:56:05 AM permalink
I like what Flea said.

I usually make myself look decent if I'm playing a poker tourney..dunno why really.

If we're throwing dice Mrs. Slyther is usually wearing something good for the dealers/players
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February 10th, 2011 at 10:01:52 AM permalink
I actually like this topic...
I get a big kick out of it...I'm in a casino every weekend, so I see everything.
90% of the people that go, dress UP..to me, I wonder why, because the damn casino is FILTHY.
Personally I wear khaki's and polo's....but I wear those EVERYDAY, so...no different for me.
Just cracks me up to see people dress UP, just to go to a casino to lose money...I guess it makes them feel "important" ?
It makes me feel "important" to have a lot of black chips in front of me, lol.
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February 10th, 2011 at 12:46:22 PM permalink
Quote: TIMSPEED

Personally I wear khaki's and polo's....but I wear those EVERYDAY, so...no different for me.
Just cracks me up to see people dress UP, just to go to a casino to lose money...I guess it makes them feel "important" ?



It would be interesting to know if the gentlemen I have seen wearing sport coats in the casino, typically wear a coat/suit at work. It could be the older guy equivalent of those who wear polos and khakis as their standard work uniform, and not considered by them to be dressing up.
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February 10th, 2011 at 2:16:49 PM permalink
Quote: Ayecarumba

It would be interesting to know if the gentlemen I have seen wearing sport coats in the casino, typically wear a coat/suit at work. It could be the older guy equivalent of those who wear polos and khakis as their standard work uniform, and not considered by them to be dressing up.


You could very well be correct, since I'm in my mid 20's....
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February 10th, 2011 at 2:37:39 PM permalink
Some people like to dress up when they are going on vacation. Vegas certainly has an aura to it that I think would help that. I'm not sure what the point is in dressing up going to a local casino 20 minutes from your house though.

I wear shorts/pants depending on the temp + collared shirt. But this is 95% of what I normally wear. I will never wear a tie unless the occasion means it is mandatory. I'm fine with tshirts, but I generally eat at 1 nicer place each day and I just feel odd ordering some disk for $30-40 with a tshirt on. I guess I just don't want to give the impression to people that this is my one splurge for the trip and the rest of it will be at fast food(granted I still get this at 3am each morning :) ).



Gambling I don't care though. I've seen people betting $200/hand wearing tshirts and they didn't look at all out of place. I do get a kick out of people in suits at a $5 table getting overly excited about winning $10 though. Nothing wrong with that, I just like it when 2 things seem to contradict each other.
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February 10th, 2011 at 5:03:57 PM permalink
I don't know what "Smart Casual" looks like, so I Googled it. Look who turned up:



Seems a bit too formal for me, but I have seen this look in many Vegas casinos. I've also seen the tie-less open dress shirt get up too.
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February 10th, 2011 at 7:55:22 PM permalink
My usual is jeans, a button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and sneakers. Or if it's the summer probably a golf/polo shirt, some cargo shorts, and topsiders. but I always wear a collared shirt, because I look 16 years old if I don't.
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February 11th, 2011 at 11:02:56 AM permalink
I must have looked at too many photos from the 50s, where all you see are men in suits and women in dresses. On past trips my nostalgia for that kind of atmosphere made me forget the reality, so I ended up regretting what I packed.

I think I've got it figured out now, after a few overdressed visits to Ellis Island.
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