Starlets Doesn't Publish a Dress Code. Here's What the Door Does Check.
Starlets has not published a dress code. There is no posted list to comply with, which means anyone handing you one for this venue made it up or copied it from somewhere that did.
What the venue has published about its door is short. It is a 21+ room, and every person shows a valid government-issued photo ID, every time. That is the requirement. It is also the whole requirement, and it is the reason this post is shorter on rules than you were probably expecting.
Why so many door policies were never written down
The phrase "the dress code" sounds like a document. Most of the time it never was one.
Door policy at night spots grew out of house habit and judgment on the floor, passed between staff rather than typed up and posted. Some rooms eventually wrote theirs down because they wanted the clarity. Plenty never did, and there is nothing sinister in that.
Then the internet arrived and started filling the silence. An aggregator needs a field to populate. A forum answer from a decade ago gets scraped and repeated. Someone's memory of one night becomes a rule for everyone.
How to tell a real answer from a repeated one
Check where it came from. That is the entire test.
A page that states exactly what Starlets requires you to wear should be able to say who told it that. Usually it cannot, because nobody did. The information came from a template, from another page that was also guessing, or from somebody's assumption dressed up in confident sentences.
We are not going to add another guess to that pile. Inventing a policy for a venue is worse than saying nothing, because it sends you out of the house acting on something no one at the door has ever agreed to.
The answer that is actually reliable
Call the club at (646) 301-6606 and ask.
One phone call gets you an answer from the people who run the room, on the night you are actually going, which is more specific than anything a page written months ago can offer. If it matters to you, it is worth the two minutes.
The same goes if you are booking. Tell the host what the night is when you arrange the table, and ask anything you want to be certain about while you have them.
When a page contradicts the venue, the venue wins
Written down, that sounds obvious. It is surprisingly easy to ignore at eleven at night, when a search result is right there on the screen and making a phone call feels like effort.
A directory listing has no way of knowing what changed last month. The room does. If you are holding an answer from the club and an answer from a page you have never heard of, drop the page.
What to tell your group
You can say two things with total confidence, and they happen to be the two that matter. It is 21 and up. Everybody brings a valid government-issued photo ID.
That is the honest list. Anything past it, tell them you will check, which holds up far better than a confident guess does when somebody quotes you back at the door.
Nobody has ever been let down by a friend who said call and find out.
What is knowable, and worth planning around
The door question sits in a small circle of unknowns surrounded by a much larger circle of things that are perfectly clear.
Starlets is open daily 11 PM to 4 AM. It sits at 49-09 25th Ave, Woodside, NY 11377, in Queens. The age requirement is fixed, the ID requirement is fixed, and neither one moves for a reservation, which is covered in full in does a reservation skip the ID check.
Seating is arrangeable in advance too. Reserved seating and table service are on the services page, and you can start a VIP booking here rather than leaving the seating question to chance on a busy night.
The part of the door you do control
Since there is no posted dress standard to satisfy, put that energy where it actually pays. How a group behaves on the walk up matters more than anything else within your control, and the behaviors that end a night at the door goes through it properly.
Sober enough to enjoy yourself. ID out. A group that stays together.
That combination has never let anyone down, and it does not require you to guess at a rule nobody wrote.
Pick your night on something real
If you are choosing an evening, choose it on the room rather than on an imagined door policy. A quiet weeknight and a packed weekend are genuinely different experiences, and visiting on an ordinary week versus a big weekend lays out both.
Then get the useful facts straight. Age, ID, hours, address, and a table if you want one.
Call if you want certainty about anything else. That is what the number is for.