Jeans in the dinning room

[caribbean girl]

OK, but what if Jean is wearing jeans in the dining room? Do we call the jeans police? And what if the head of security/jeans police is a French-Canadian called Jean? Are we going to expect Jean to confront Jean for wearing jeans in the dining room?:eek:

 

Yes...mais, certainment!! She will most certainly be escorted to the Lido, after receiving the well deserved ten lashes avec les mouilles nouilles!!!:rolleyes:

[NoNoNanette]

After poor Jean is lashed and banished to the Lido, she can join me up on the TOPLESS DECK. :p

[nanashirl]

I really don't understand what all the fuss is about.

On formal night I agree that everyone should dress up as it is expected, but casual nights I don't know why anyone would care if someone wore jeans. At our Country Club a lot of the gentlemen wear dress jeans and a sport coat and look great. It doesn't bother me what anyone else wears.

I will dress for dinner as that is part of the fun for me, but really think a person should do what they will comfortable with.

[NoNoNanette]

I really don't understand what all the fuss is about.

On formal night I agree that everyone should dress up as it is expected, but casual nights I don't know why anyone would care if someone wore jeans. At our Country Club a lot of the gentlemen wear dress jeans and a sport coat and look great. It doesn't bother me what anyone else wears.

I will dress for dinner as that is part of the fun for me, but really think a person should do what they will comfortable with.

 

Careful, kiddo.... keep posting like that and HEADS WILL EXPLODE! :rolleyes:

 

(I'm in total agreement with you) :)

[peaches from georgia]

At our Country Club a lot of the gentlemen wear dress jeans and a sport coat and look great.

Your Country Club is a lot difference than ours then and every CC we have ever belonged to or visited. 'CC Casual' where we are means 'no jeans' and they are strictly forbidden on the driving range, on the golf course, in the main dining room, in the bar or even in the casual dining area (where shorts are allowed). But no jeans of any kind ever. I do think it depends on where you live as to what the standards are.

[sail7seas]

After poor Jean is lashed and banished to the Lido, she can join me up on the TOPLESS DECK. :p

 

Why would she do that? She'd have to shed her Jeans she has rallied so valiantly to get away with wearing. :D

 

No....guess you'll have to find someone else to go up there with you! (wherever it is this 'fictional Topless Deck' may be. ):confused: Won't be Jean without her jeans, I don't think. ;)

[kryos]

Is this REALLY the case ? The jeans clause was missing on this particular cruise, but I would like to hear what other Hal ships are doing.

 

LOL at the butt cleavage. It reminds me of Dan Ackroyd repairing the "old Norge" in SNL. :D

I'd be willing to bet that the dress code will be determined by ship/itinerary. If this was an Alaska or a Caribbean sailing, maybe the "no jeans" clause was taken out of the "Know Before You Go" brochure that was sent to the original poster on this thread. But maybe for a European cruise, it would still be there?

 

Just curious ...

 

Blue skies ...

 

--rita

[sail7seas]

No jeans in the dining room at any CC we have been at.

 

Dress Jeans.....here we go again. No such thing, IMO

 

 

That is what I always get a kick out of.

 

The nice jeans thing......the dress jeans thing.....the designer jeans thing.....the jeweled jeans thing.......the pricey jeans thing....etc etc etc What in the heck are "dress jeans"? That's a contradiction in terms IMO

 

 

Jeans are jeans are jeans are jeans. Call them anything else and they are still jeans. IMO......

 

 

[NoNoNanette]

Why would she do that? She'd have to shed her Jeans she has rallied so valiantly to get away with wearing. :D

 

No....guess you'll have to find someone else to go up there with you! (wherever it is this 'fictional Topless Deck' may be. ):confused: Won't be Jean without her jeans, I don't think. ;)

 

Hey, give Jean an inch, and she'll take a mile! First denim, and then bare breasts! :)

[dakrewser]

At our Country Club a lot of the gentlemen wear dress jeans and a sport coat and look great.

 

The concept of "dress jeans" is not widespread outside of the SW US. I'd certainly never come across them until we moved to Austin - and haven't seen them since we left the hill country for the Bay Area.

 

Surprisingly, no one has ever suggsted wearing a "Texas Tuxedo" on formal nights!:rolleyes:

[nanashirl]

You were right NoNoNanette - People do get upset if you disagree.

Guess us people from the South just don't know how to act around the elite from other areas.

We were on a cruise a couple of years ago and there several men wearing dress jeans (for those of you that don't know they are cut just like slacks, only made with light weight dark denim) One sitting at our table was from NYC - guess he must have lived in the South at one time too.

It really doesn't matter as my husband doesn't wear them. I just think we should be more tolerant of others and not let what other people wear matter to us. The time you are worrying about that is taking away from your fun and the other people really don't care what we think.

 

Careful, kiddo.... keep posting like that and HEADS WILL EXPLODE! :rolleyes:

 

(I'm in total agreement with you) :)

[caribbean girl]

You were right NoNoNanette - People do get upset if you disagree.

Guess us people from the South just don't know how to act around the elite from other areas.

We were on a cruise a couple of years ago and there several men wearing dress jeans (for those of you that don't know they are cut just like slacks, only made with light weight dark denim) One sitting at our table was from NYC - guess he must have lived in the South at one time too.

It really doesn't matter as my husband doesn't wear them. I just think we should be more tolerant of others and not let what other people wear matter to us. The time you are worrying about that is taking away from your fun and the other people really don't care what we think.

 

 

 

No, no nanashirl!! You've got it all wrong!! Don't you see? This worrying you are referring to IS part of the fun for some people!! It contributes to a certain (false) sense of superiority.:rolleyes:

 

I was watching the morning news recently and there was a report about airlines losing people's luggage. Two ladies who looked to be in their 50's (an unimportant detail) got off the plane sans luggage. I believe it was returned when they got home, but they boarded a cruise ship with nothing to wear but what was contained in their carry ons. They attended a formal night on the ship and wore their Land's End nightgowns!!:D They looked adorable...one was pink the other blue!! And they were smiling and happy, just as if they were wearing the fanciest gowns!! And I bet nobody said a word or even noticed!! It made me think of all the fuss on these boards. Some people here would have banished them to the Lido or their cabins but, spunky ladies that they are, they decided to go with the flow and not sweat it!:p I'm sure they managed to thoroughly enjoy their cruise, too.

[sail7seas]

Speaking for myself, I would never appear in public in sleepwear.....a nightgown.

 

Can't speak for anyone else, of course. It would be my choice as to whether I found my garb presentable. I certainly would notice if a woman passed by me wearing a nightgown. That woman would Not be me. I would definitely not feel 'cute or adorable'. ;)

 

 

 

[tech]

1. Do not belong to a Country Club. ( Parents did when they were alive )

 

2. Can still afford to cruise = HAL, Celebrity and Princess

 

3. Have excellent quality denium skirts, slacks and jumpers.

 

4. Have worn denium skirt with matching jacket to casual dinner.

 

5. Have worn denium jumper with elegant blouse to casual dinner.

 

6. Have a long jeweled designer dress with jacket in denium that have worn to informal dinner.

 

7. Have worn denium slacks on shore tours and had people on some Islands want to buy them from me. Probably could have paid for our cruise if I had a stack of them with me.

 

8. Have dined on formal night in The Lido and seen all variety of informal clothes on women with more "bling " than Lloyds of London could insure !

 

9. Husband wears Denium Docker Shorts. So does adult son. They wear them in the daytime and switch to regular Docker slacks in the evening when casual night.

 

10. Graduated from Private Prep School and University.

 

So are we talking about jeans as in Wrangler or denium material that is considered inferior to the cheaper cotton slacks from India ?

 

Times do change. Fashions change. Meanings of words change.

 

Companies must at times change to keep customers.

 

Customers bring money to the bottom line.

 

The bottom line brings money to the stockholders.

 

Ergo = If you are a stockholder in a company that is not giving you a good return, you should hope that they do change.

 

Stockholders = Dividends + Stock Splits

 

Dividends = money to Cruise

 

"Follow the money "

 

Now if this thread is one that equates Denium material with lower class,

then I must indeed be "Trailer Trash " and how come I can afford to cruise?

 

Must be those dividends from the companies that are changing. :)

 

P.S. Be careful who you talk to on your next cruise, it could be me in that denium material. :D

[sail7seas]

I'm interested where you are from.....

 

You refer to what Americans call 'denim' as denium.

 

Thanks if you care to share.

 

 

[caribbean girl]

Speaking for myself, I would never appear in public in sleepwear.....a nightgown.

 

Can't speak for anyone else, of course. It would be my choice as to whether I found my garb presentable. I certainly would notice if a woman passed by me wearing a nightgown. That woman would Not be me. I would definitely not feel 'cute or adorable'. ;)

 

 

 

 

Neither would I...but I love that they had the hutzpah to go with the flow.;) Desperate times require desperate measures. The photo shown in the report displayed two happy looking women wearing pastel colored dresses flashing giant smiles. What stories to tell their grandchildren!!:D

 

By the way, these were not lacy nighties. They actually looked like just-below-the- knee length t-shirts. I have actually seen dresses from Talbots in the same cut and style. And much more pricey than those Land's End nightgowns probably were. :)

[HALOnlyCruiser]

Jeans ARE formal in Alaska. (Off the ship). If it's REALLY formal they hose off their XTra-Tuffs!:D

[caribbean girl]

By the way tech...I certainly hope I DO sit next to you on a cruise one of these days. You sound like MY kind of 'Trailer Trash'!!:p

[nanashirl]

WELL SAID TECH.

TO EACH HIS OWN.

HOPE TO SEE YOU ON ONE OF MY CRUISES.

MY KIND OF CRUISER.

[Copper10-8]

Sorry, we are not members of and/or don't belong to an exclussive country club and can probably count on the fingers of one hand how many times we've been in one for maybe a wedding reception, golf tournament, etc . This and other dress code threads will never die. It/they will go away for a while and then reappear under a different name and/or be dug up from the bowels of the CC ship we are all sailing on. Bottom line is: if HAL choses not to consistently enforce their "suggested" dress code, folks will wear variations of whatever they think applies to them. You can call them selfish, the "me me" generation but you're not going to be able to do a thing about it without HAL's help. I have read here that folks have seen it, but I have personally never seen anyone turned away by the dining room supervisor(s) on a HAL ship for not adhering to "the code". But then again, I'm not known to do a lot of hanging out at the DR doors and I don't believe one has a great view of what goes on at the doors from any of the end tables on each side. I can tell you that I have never had the "pleasure" to be confronted with someone wearing a tank top, wifebeater shirt, and/or butt crack display pants:eek: in the dining room on any night.

 

We happen to follow the dress code. At work, I wear either a uniform and/or a suit (but never a tux;) ) depending on my assignment so sure, I wouldn't mind at all enjoying my vacation by dressing in a casual way every day. However, when we get on a HAL ship, we know the "suggested" dress code and we follow it because #1 we choose to, #2 out of respect to the line's wishes and #3 out of respect to our fellow passengers. We know we're not getting on a Windstar and/or Windjammer Barefoot ship where the dress code is definitely more relaxed. We fully realize that there are folks here who choose HAL for the ambiance, who love to dress up and wish everyone else did the same 100% of the time. Unfortunately, and several folks here have said it, "the times, they are a changing" and those times of everyone dressing up to the nines are gone! I know some folks will not agree with that. To me, you can accept it or you can fight it but it's a fact and it's only going to increase with each new generation who were not brought up the way us babyboomers and the generations before us, were!

 

It did not, does not, and will not ruin our vacation when we see someone who is not dressed the way the line "suggests" and/or is wearing jeans in the dining room. It's just not worth it and live is just too short! Keep enjoying your vacation and be thankful you have the ability to be on a ship. We cruisers are still in the minority, and an awfull lot of folks will never be able to do it! :) Off the box!

[Krazy Kruizers]

Sitting my the rail, does give us the opportunity to see who enters the dining room and we do try to notice what is going on. One of the reasons why we like a table for 2 is that we don't have to be concerned how our table mates are dressed. And that's one of the reasons why we no longer sail on NCL or Princess where the dress codes the last few years have changed quite a bit and not to our liking - JMO.

[Silver Pearl]

Jeans are what I wear to wash the car. Why do we have to be so grubby on Informal nights. Jeans are informal grub wear.

 

Weren't the original blue jeans known as dungarees? :)

 

--Rich

[gizmo]

Yes, they were called dungarees when I was a kid. I think it was in the late 60's that the term jeans started to be used. Jeans became popular with the hippie generation. I remember soaking them in bleach to soften them up. ;)

[Silver Pearl]

. . . It did not, does not, and will not ruin our vacation when we see someone who is not dressed the way the line "suggests" and/or is wearing jeans in the dining room. It's just not worth it and live is just too short! Keep enjoying your vacation and be thankful you have the ability to be on a ship. We cruisers are still in the minority, and an awfull lot of folks will never be able to do it! :) Off the box!

 

I agree entirely. While I do dress "to code" while aboard, it doesn't bother me if others don't.

 

That said, I really enjoyed our cruise on the Silver Whisper last Fall. Silversea is a very "dressy" line, and most everyone complied with code, even though this was a Caribbean cruise. The resulting effect was that dinners were elegant affairs. I found myself enjoying "playing dress up," though at home I really like loafin' in my jeans.

 

The big argument on Silversea was whether informal in the Caribbean required a tie with one's coat, or not.

 

So, I do see the benefit of the majority following a code. But I also have a bit of a rebellious streak. I think I'd like to have a nicely-tailored light weight denim Tux.

 

Meanwhile, I'm hoping to enjoy our Westerdam cruise in June. The occasional "reverse cleavage" won't bother me, and may even prove entertaining.

 

--Rich

[Copper10-8]

I agree entirely. While I do dress "to code" while aboard, it doesn't bother me if others don't.

 

That said, I really enjoyed our cruise on the Silver Whisper last Fall. Silversea is a very "dressy" line, and most everyone complied with code, even though this was a Caribbean cruise. The resulting effect was that dinners were elegant affairs. I found myself enjoying "playing dress up," though at home I really like loafin' in my jeans.

 

The big argument on Silversea was whether informal in the Caribbean required a tie with one's coat, or not.

 

So, I do see the benefit of the majority following a code. But I also have a bit of a rebellious streak. I think I'd like to have a nicely-tailored light weight denim Tux.

 

Meanwhile, I'm hoping to enjoy our Westerdam cruise in June. The occasional "reverse cleavage" won't bother me, and may even prove entertaining.

 

--Rich

 

Rich, heard a lot about the Italian "silver ships" Cloud, Wind, Shadow and Whisper. Good to hear you liked them!

Please let me know if you are able to find a denim tux! I'll stick to my ongoing study of the more tradidional cleavage. ;)