Gene
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Please forgive me if the question has been addressed, I tried searching the thread and the search failed... plus, it took a while to go through so I may have missed it...
Question about the following terms: saloon and club. We have 3 types of bars around here; modern night clubs, Irish pubs, and dives (some call them sports bars). Now, I try to stay away from the dives and night clubs (neither are really my "scene"), and since the last Martini bar disappeared a few years back, I only really end up in Irish pubs (although one of our Irish pubs downtown turns into a night club at 11pm every Friday and Saturday night). The terms saloon and club are rather generic, and based on the postings, have different rules associated with them. Would ettiquette dictate removal of the hat in pubs or would it be acceptable to keep the hat on?
I am guessing the hat etiquette with a pub would be to keep it on. There's enough photographic evidence of men in Ireland wearing their hats and caps in pubs for ages.