I LOVE being dressed up and looking totally out of place - as long as at least one other person is too.
Can't help on the carpet thing though...

I was trying to remember the name of One Fitzroy, but it's been too long since I lived down in St K. I wouldn't know how good it is any more anyway.
Oh, while you're down that way though, there is (was in 2007) a great restaurant on Dundas place, in Albert Park - don't remember the name though, and then the Albert Park hotel is just down the road, or that other pub on Vic Ave. AP Hotel is not sticky carpet, though, it's a w*nker bar.