hit it out of the park from the very first night but you know it's paul and steve that are in charge of all this so it wasn't what it is today at all there was almost no structure to these shows it was just kind of whatever goes goes there was no choreography no costumes no real themes but it still managed to attract a lot of attention and a lot of women and week after week the audience just continued to grow and so did the amount of excitement i mean people would just scream in the audience people would go wild especially because around this time women were just starting to really express themselves as sexual beings and it was something very freeing very cathartic women felt like they could just be themselves be as sexual as they wanted to be have fun with it because it felt like there would really be no consequence to it all this was something different than how a lot of them had been raised you know how they had seen their mothers raised and it was a really exciting time it all began in NUMBER_TOKEN when the very first chippendales opened on the west side of la the popularity i think was the first time that the equality door was kicked open for women to get the same kind of entertainment options that men have had for years they could be rowdy rude vulgar even like men i think it's a great place for role reversal the men are allowed to go wherever they want why can't ladies the scintillating show for ladies only will need a sell-out it was so popular that they were selling out like night after night and sometimes they were letting too many people in and overcrowding it and so stephen paul realized they really tapped into something special here that this was going to be a success so since paul had you know met a lot of people through dorothy working for playboy he had a lot of connections and he ended up getting kind of a blessing from hugh hefner to sort of imitate the classic playboy bunny look they put all the men in collars and cuffs and created this kind of cohesive look that eventually would become nationally recognized when you think of chippendale now this is what you picture and the thing that was also different about chippendales is no men were allowed and they said they did this because they thought it made women feel more safe to just go crazy be themselves and let it all go for a night but the only male that they would let in was hugh hefner who loved chippendales the chippendales and the playboy mansion became very intertwined like the women from the playboy mansion were always just hanging out there he would be there just hanging out and remember this is one of steve banerjee's idols he loves hugh hefner so to have him coming to his club on the regular he just felt on top of the world so chip and dale's was doing very well by this point they were packed out every single night and obviously there are rules about how many people you can have in your club maximum capacities fire codes but steve really didn't care about any of this all steve cared about was money even though the club had a max capacity of NUMBER_TOKEN he would often fill the club with NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN women double the maximum capacity this is chippendales a nightclub exclusively for women the only man allowed in the club are the waiters bartenders and the male
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