"around our town, CS."

Fine, but you live in your town. I've no idea if it's a garrison town or not, but the town *I* was describing is a garrison town, which is why there are a lot of squaddies there. They dress up smartly, go out in big groups, get bladdered and of course start fights.

The point I was making was that contrary to popular opinion "smart" doesn't equate to nice respectable citizens, and "scruffy" doesn't equate to troublesome or problematic ones, and that such dress-codes as adopted by many night spots, are plainly ridiculous.