Rare LHT28 Posted April 5, 2011 #51 Share Posted April 5, 2011 Country club casual looks like what you see in some of the Oceania pics that have been posted at Flickr. Sounds to me like you'll fit right in. Cheers Margaret I notice the actors are in jackets they are not really required It gives the impression that you must wear them at dinner :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairie_cheeks Posted April 7, 2011 #52 Share Posted April 7, 2011 I notice the actors are in jackets they are not really required. It gives the impression that you must wear them at dinner :( That's true. Those Oceania photos are staged. My husband sometimes wore just a shirt and tie when dining. I recently found a web site that gives you an idea of what smart casual could look like. It has pull down menus for you to change the list depending on a variety of factors (weather, gender, time of day). Maybe that will be useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mura Posted April 7, 2011 #53 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Just a shirt and tie? No pants? That WOULD be casual! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Citizen Posted April 8, 2011 #54 Share Posted April 8, 2011 Just a shirt and tie? No pants? That WOULD be casual! :D Actually, Mura, we saw this happen in the GDR a number of years ago. There was a very elderly, frail couple on the ship. We were right behind them, walking through the bar to the GDR around 6:30 pm one night. They walked so slowly that I'm sure they left their stateroom at 5:30 and had been heading there since. The wife was with a walker and her tall husband was "helping" her. Anyway, we noticed that the husband had on a long-sleeved shirt and tie and boxers, no pants. Obviously, he had forgotten to finish dressing. When we got to the podium where they assigned the tables, there was a long line of waiters ready to escort the first guests of the evening to their seats. No one blinked an eye or had a grin on their face. The couple was assigned to a table for two closest to the dining room entrance. Once seated, you couldn't see the man's legs because the tablecloth covered them. And, since they were seated near the entrance, they didn't have to walk through a full dining room when they were finished with their dinner. We thought that was an absolute class act from the employees of Oceania. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mura Posted April 8, 2011 #55 Share Posted April 8, 2011 I have to agree, Senior. Classy indeed. It's very different from a thread today on Opera-l where some people were complaining about having attended operas where they were bothered by other people's oxygen machines ... "I came to see this opera, not be bothered by the noise of your oxygen." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amer_can Posted April 8, 2011 #56 Share Posted April 8, 2011 Oxygen????WHAAAT??? It is hard to imagine anyone so crumby!!!:eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mura Posted April 8, 2011 #57 Share Posted April 8, 2011 Absolutely!! The thread started because there was a recital a few days ago that was disrupted by an elderly gentleman's noisy hearing aid. He couldn't hear the squeal so he absolutely refused to believe he was the source of the problem. Since he was sitting right at the front of the theater, the singer was as disturbed as anyone in the audience. From this discussion, it descended into "awful experiences I've had at music performances" ... Further to the story about the gentleman on Oceania who forgot to put on his slacks, how wonderful that the staff had the discretion to discern the difference between someone who just doesn't care to obey the "rules" and wears a grungy t-shirt or hole-y jeans into the GDR and someone like this man who clearly had too much on his plate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shackpacker Posted July 16, 2011 #58 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Are you going with the V. Sattui group in November? If so, my husband and I are, too, and we're anything but stuffy. Having met a number of people at the Harvest Balls, etc., I think that is true of most of the Sattui people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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