Sad to say it but this is life for some of us outchea.
Just this last weekend I was on the receiving end of this kind of thing. The guy looks at my ID. Looks at my shoes, and says no athletic shoes. I say ok thats fine. Went out to the car and threw on my dress shoes.
I had my boy holding a spot in line and I jump back in line. He looks at me again and struggles to find a reason to deny me. I was wearing 514s, a slim fitted button up, slim tie. The guy then looks at my ID and looks at me like
(I'm 26 btw). He then brings a cop over to take a look at the ID. They pull me out of the line and quiz me on my address and ask if I have any other cards with my name on it etc. He then says there was someone there that looked like me that was causing issues (I had just got into town no more than 10 minutes before that).
Unfortunately this kind of stuff is pretty common.