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Dress
Code For Darts Players
The
clothing that darts players wear in pubs is very predictable with most dressing
in jeans, some sort of short sleeved shirt and usually trainers. Often
visiting teams will sport matching T shirts all with identical logos on, perhaps
advertising their pub and sometimes their individual names. Everybody sees the
professionals on TV with their names emblazoned across their shirts and so when
a team walks in dressed with their designer shirts decorated like this they
assume that the players must be good. This may not be the case and it is often
the way that the player to watch out for is the one that does not have a
matching shirt, because he is a ringer brought in for the night and he has not
got a special team shirt as he rarely plays for them because he is busy with
more important matches elsewhere. Another
player to watch out for, that can be identified by his clothing, is the little
old man who wears a tweed jacket and cloth cap. You don’t see this type of
player very often now, but just occasionally you might come across one.
Everybody playing darts knows that you can’t play serious darts in a jacket
because it restricts your arms too much. So be warned that such a player is
either crap or so good that he doesn’t bother to take his jacket off because
he knows there is no opposition. Male
players clothing
can be unusual sometimes, (see article) Some
young ladies that play in men’s leagues dress in inappropriate clothing in an
attempt to put off their male opponents. They will wear low cut tops revealing a
little too much cleavage or short skirts that are a little too short and bend
over to distract the opposition. I’m all for attractive young ladies dressing
like this, but not when I am playing them at darts and the match rests on my
beating them! Perhaps
the strangest item someone wore when I played them in a match was Sunglasses. Of
course when I told my mates back came the question, “Did you beat
him?”
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