Would you be willing to dress nice to raise the opinion of billiards?

Thomas McKane · Apr 7, 2015

When you go to your local pool hall, or any pool hall, would you be willing to dress up like they used to in the old days? If it would raise the stature of billiards in the public's eye and help the game, would you do it? Hell, it might even bring women back to pool halls.

prewarhero · Apr 7, 2015

In a televised tournament? sure. Playing at the room? No chance. I wear a suit 5 days a week. I play in track pants and a t-shirt. My goal is to be as comfortable as possible. At most I would wear a polo and chinos but only if I really had to.

FranCrimi · Apr 7, 2015

The guys in those photos dressed up but it didn't change the negative reputation of the game.

I think it's the personalities of the players that dictates the reputation of the game. Get them to stop acting like thugs and you might have something. But good luck with that.

Keith Jawahir · Apr 7, 2015

I'm already used to this. We have to wear button down shirt/dress pants/shoes for the Ginky Memorial, and also in the Megabucks Pool League playoffs. During the most recent playoffs, A lot of people on the live stream provided positive feedback about how professional we looked.

In short, yes. I agree with this. All the time, no.

billf59 · Apr 7, 2015

I think in all tournaments with the top end players playing they should dress nice it may help the image of the pro pool player

KRJ · Apr 7, 2015

Oh, not this lame argument about folks dress is the cause of pool problems or that if we dressed nicer, it might help.

Folks fly on airplanes in shorts and sandals. Folks go to nice restaurants wearing a ball cap, jeans and a t-shirt, and many folks won't even put on a tie or even a suit jacket for a funeral, and we want them to "gussy" up to shoot a few racks

Folks pay $5 at work for the opportunity to wear jeans to work instead of dress clothes, usually about twice a month. The money goes to local charity. And almost everyone does it. 4K employees in our building. Friday is always casual day, no charge.

C'mon guys, we need better ideas than this for pool. Society is on "causal day" now, it might change again some day, but that's the way it is now, whether you agree with it or not.

And no, I will continue to wear jeans, cap and t-shirt to shoot pool, it's a sport, NOT a wedding

cleary · Apr 7, 2015

You're...

if you think the way people dress forms the opinion of billiards.

Keith Jawahir · Apr 7, 2015

ChicagoRJ said:
Oh, not this lame argument about folks dress is the cause of pool problems or that if we dressed nicer, it might help.

Folks fly on airplanes in shorts and sandals. Folks go to nice restaurants wearing a ball cap, jeans and a t-shirt, and many folks won't even put on a tie or even a suit jacket for a funeral, and we want them to "gussy" up to shoot a few racks

Folks pay $5 at work for the opportunity to wear jeans to work instead of dress clothes, usually about twice a month. The money goes to local charity. And almost everyone does it. 4K employees in our building. Friday is always casual day, no charge.

C'mon guys, we need better ideas than this for pool. Society is on "causal day" now, it might change again some day, but that's the way it is now, whether you agree with it or not.

And no, I will continue to wear jeans, cap and t-shirt to shoot pool, it's a sport, NOT a wedding

Bonus Ball might have been on to something with team jerseys. Something like standardized apparel for pool couldn't hurt. We just have to figure out what exactly that is. Wearing something that looks like a football or hockey jersey definitely isn't it.

SWN99 · Apr 7, 2015

Dress it up just like the snooker players.

DJ14.1 · Apr 7, 2015

I would, but not sure if it would help much. I think the silver bullet that fixes pool is still a mystery.

RioSevario · Apr 7, 2015

Dress up for major events, sure. But minor/weekly events don't think so.

cleary · Apr 7, 2015

Thomas McKane said:

Funny part about these photos is that's how everyone dressed to do everything 100 years ago... they dressed like that to take the trash out.

thehoneybadger · Apr 7, 2015

Look good, feel good, play good. Always dress nice when your doing something you want to excel at

ADAM HENSON · Apr 7, 2015

Thomas McKane said:
When you go to your local pool hall, or any pool hall, would you be willing to dress up like they used to in the old days? If it would raise the stature of billiards in the public's eye and help the game, would you do it? Hell, it might even bring women back to pool halls.

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I most certainly sure would, in a heart beat!

philly · Apr 7, 2015

Love the old pictures but it's a different world completely now. Take a look at the bleachers in the old baseball photos. Men in ties and fedoras. Heck, my grandfather mowed the lawn in a white shirt and tie.

KRJ · Apr 7, 2015

cleary said:
Funny part about these photos is that's how everyone dressed to do everything 100 years ago... they dressed like that to take the trash out.

Exactly. That was back when Ward was a little too hard on the Beaver last night, according to June Cleavor

Inaction · Apr 7, 2015

One year, at the SD State 8 Ball tournament. A former Champion showed up for the early rounds wearing a tuxedo to play a match against a home town guy. He stepped away from a wedding to run a couple racks and then left.

I dressed up a couple times for Sunday morning team matches. One was a tournament that we easily won. I even ended up on the front page of the sports section in two pictures, so I guess it was a good thing I upgraded my clothes.

branpureza · Apr 7, 2015

I think the only thing worse than a pool player in his regular clothes is a pool player attempting to "dress up".

YIKES.

Also dress code is probably the last thing on the priority list if you're worried about fixing the sad state of pool in this country.

Any uneducated, crass, crooked douchebag can go out and buy a suit. At the end of the day they are still going to act like an idiot.

J SCHWARZ · Apr 7, 2015

A dress shirt and slacks is one thing but a tux or suit and tie is another. I don't think looking like a four star waiter, lawyer, or politician is the answer to the problem.

bdorman · Apr 7, 2015

To us it looks like they are dressed "nicer." But the people in those pictures could certainly tell you which ones were dressed nicely...and which were dressed like bums. It's all relative to the standards of the time.

And they were much more prejudiced about "clothes make the man" than we are.

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