A DOORMAN once uttered the fateful words “not tonight” to my group of friends as we stood queuing for a nightclub.

I had no idea why we were refused entry then and I am none the wiser now some eight or nine years later.

We were not drunk, rowdy or wearing trainers (showing my age here) or, as far as I’m aware, committing any other misdemeanours for which you might be told “you’re not coming in”.

So I can well understand the anger which may have prompted Lisa Woodman, the 28-year-old barred from three Worcester nightspots – apparently because of her revealing outfits – to bring her story to the Worcester News.

I can vouch for how infuriating it is to be refused entry to a place in which you intend to spend some of your hard-earned cash.

Although I’d like to point out I wasn’t wearing the kind of get-up preferred by Lisa on that evening.

I wonder, though, what Lisa, pictured, makes of the furore that has since surrounded her story.

I doubt she expected to be gracing the pages of national newspapers under the tag ‘humiliated mother-of four’.

My assumption, based on the way she likes to dress, would be that she has been enjoying the attention but of course that is nothing more than an assumption.

I shouldn’t judge, of course, but the trouble is you do, don’t you?

So while I believe that people should be able to wear whatever they like, I’m afraid I also believe that other people are quite within their rights to laugh out loud as you walk by or to say, “What on earth is she wearing?”

However, they don’t have the right to say that Lisa is a bad person or a bad mother because of what she wears or because she likes to go out to nightclubs occasionally.

Ridicule her fashion sense by all means but don’t assume it says anything more about her than she has got very bad taste in PVC.

And come on, Tramps, let her in from now on and offer her a free drink. She has done more to put you on the map this week than any amount of advertising.