The wristbands we get when we enter a bar, club, concert or event do not constitute as an accessory. In fact, it can ruin your whole outfit.
Getting ready for a night out is a production — especially for the ladies when it comes to coordinating the fashion … and a neon-yellow paper bracelet typically doesn’t coordinate with our fashion.
We scour our closets and do our own little version of a fashion show and movie wardrobe montage trying to figure out what to wear. And after carefully selecting an outfit and shoes to match, we apply makeup to coordinate, style the hair accordingly and accessorize carefully to give the outfit some frosting. And when it’s a girl’s night out and we're all dolled up, we pose for “before pictures” — as in before going out, before getting sweaty from dancing and before having to top off our wardrobe with a wristband.
So, there we are, all dressed up and ready to go … and then as soon as we get out, we have to put on a tacky plastic wristband with its excess poking us in the eyeball all night when we go to take a sip of a drink.
And I’m sure the guys don’t want to pair an expensive watch with a paper or plastic bracelet.
And if it’s not plastic, it’s paper... often a tacky color with some form of advertisement on it. At one bar, I had to rock a bracelet all night that advertised a law firm that works on DUI cases. So, there I was, in my new BeBe dress and red high heels — a walking billboard for some shameless self-promoting lawyers that make a living justifying DUIs. At least their “fad ad” acted as a reminder not to drink and drive so you don’t have to hire those guys.
At least the paper ones are easy to remove. One morning, I had to break into a tool box and get out pliers in order to get my plastic band off that I was adorned with upon entering a concert. And one Thursday at the EpiCentre, I had to get four different wrist bands and rock them as though they were bangles.
If a place is 21-and-up only, then why is a wrist band even necessary? I like the bars that you go to and they give you a little stamp on your wrist that you can barely see, yet is highly visible to the bartender when your hand’s extended handing them money. I mean, I’m not asking for bars to give us Tiffany’s bracelets when we come through the door, but something other than a fashion fopaux will suffice. Besides, stamps are cool, remember when we were kids and getting a stamp meant that we did something good.
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