A pub has been accused of declaring a ‘stealth’ ban on eshays after making a strict dress code targeting items the subculture is notorious for wearing.
Falvey’s Hotel Yamanto, located in Ipswich, in Queensland‘s south-east has displayed the list of restrictions on its website.
The premises, which contains a restaurant, beer garden, nightclub and gaming area, has banned clothing including solid red shoes and shirts as well as Nike TNs.
The prohibited items list also includes hooded jumpers, bum bags or ‘male shoulder bags’ and tracksuit pants, which are all associated with the ‘Aussie eshay’.
After the list was posted to reddit on Tuesday, many people were divided by the restrictions.
The premises, which contains a restaurant, beer garden, nightclub and gaming area, has banned clothing including solid red shoes and shirts as well as Nike TN’s
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The list also includes hooded jumpers, bum bags or ‘male shoulder bags’ and tracksuit pants, which are all associated with the ‘Aussie eshay’
‘Why no red shirt? Is there a bull loose in there?’ one wrote.
‘Damn I picked up a pair of red Sketchers for $20 at an outlet last week. Super comfortable. Looks like I won’t be visiting Ipswich anytime soon,’ another said.
‘F*** eshays for ruining the colour red,’ one said.
The list of banned clothing items also takes aim at tradies, advising the pub’s clientele steel cap boots and high-vis workwear are not welcome after 7pm.
Pub patrons have been left scratching their heads by the inclusion of ‘unfashionable thongs’ to the list.
‘Do Birkenstocks count as unfashionable thongs, I’m confused,’ one wrote.
‘If I wear thongs with socks would that impact the thongs fashionableness?’ another said.
Falvey’s Hotel owner Michael Falvey told The Courier Mail he supported the restricted dress code.
‘In our experience, the dress code that we have put in place, a certain clientele wears those clothes and we don’t wish for them to be a patron at our venue,’ he said.
‘As you would expect a man wearing a cowboy hat and some cowboy boots to be a cowboy, people who wear, say, Nike TNs, bum bags and hoodies are a certain type of person and we don’t want them.
‘They can change their shoes and have an applicable dress code and we will let them in, it’s as simple as that.’
Youths embracing eshay culture have predominantly come from low socioeconomic backgrounds but the movement has also been picked up by private school boys.
A spike in youth crime is sometimes blamed on the sub-culture.
Eshays started out some 40 years ago in Adelaide when they were known as earchers or searchers.
In the 90s, the culture spread to some of the poorer areas of Melbourne and Sydney.
The use of pig latin – reversing the order of syllables and adding extra syllables to create a mock new language – earned them the name ‘adlays’, pig latin for ‘lads’.
In recent years, the craze took off in Sydney’s west, where the name evolved from adlays to eshays, pig latin for ‘yes’.
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Falvey’s Hotel Yamanto, located in Ipswich, in Queensland ‘s south-east has displayed the list of restrictions on its website
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Falvey’s Hotel owner Michael Falvey supports the dress code saying he doesn’t want ‘a certain type of person’ at his premises
The retro mullet of the original earchers and adlays has now evolved into a more home-made look, with shaved sides and longer, spindlier hair.
An old-school, dead slug-style moustache completes the look.
But it’s the fashion which makes eshays stand out.
The vital trademark is the cross-chest manbag, paired with three-quarter length designer trackie daks and sweatshirt, with a trucker-style cap.
The essential finishing touch is a pair of Nike Air Max Plus TN sneakers which can sell for $450 or more.
Daily Mail Australia approached Falvey’s Hotel for comment.