I went to the Esplanade last night to see if there was any dress code for the event.
There isn't. The lady there told me that it was up to us, and that they weren't strict about it. She added that we should dress according to whether we respect the performer.
Sounds like having a collar is the minimum (for us guys). A few seconds later as I thanked the lady for the info, I began to think about how to enforce a dress code without actually setting a rule in stone.
You may find some of the ideas politically incorrect.
If so, do refer to the FYI section in the column far right.
Here's my first idea: Set the air-con on a really cool setting. This way people are more likely to feel cold and will cover up if they can, and thus, dress less informally in future (since casual clothing is typically less thick/warm). So although they may dress informally the first time, they'd probably do something about it the next time they visit. However, they still may not comply to our invisible rule, they can still bypass it with a jacket or hoodie.
That brings me to attack from a different angle: Cut off discounts to students/NS-Men, the reason being that I feel that this is the age group most likely to dress informally. This way, they'd be discouraged to watch these shows since majority of us do not have solid incomes, and those who are rich would probably own more versatile not-so-informal-ish clothes anyway.
My next idea: Hold more (formal-ish) shows on weekday evenings instead of weekends, this is because a lot of people work on weekdays, thus they have to dress for work, and unfortunately, not a lot jobs give you the freedom of dressing informally to work, so unless the person can be bothered to bring an extra change of informals (which I think would be a minority), most of the audience would be in 'acceptable' attire.
My last idea: Jack up the prices of the tickets so high that only those who really have money to throw around or really desperately want to see the show will come. Reason: Those who really want to see the show probably have a lot of respect for the performer, and those with money to throw around would probably want to look somewhat good/acceptable, and dress accordingly.
So that's about it.
If you haven't realised by now, I have disregarded any other factors that might affect the show. For example, my last idea might result in a very low attendance. But heck, these are just ideas, and they do not have to be implemented. But these ideas can be used to generate further ideas and modifications of existing ones, and in the end, you may end up with a new good idea.
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It was chosen in line with blackle.com but I'm not too sure that this colour scheme saves energy, but the higher contrast makes for easier reading. Also, notice there are no lines/dividers on the skin ? This way it looks a bit chaotic, a bit like yours truly. Finally, this skin allows the page to load way faster than the previous one, because it has a smaller size.
