What is up with the inappropriate dress?

[halos]

My personal thoughts are that I would never wear PJ's out and about in public...but then again I wouldn't be caught dead in a pair of Crocs either.

How can people complain about PJ's when they're walking around in plastic shoes FTLOG??????????

 

gross. and I thought the '80's were a fashion nightmare. :rolleyes:

[mcfam5]

On one of our cruises there was a couple who would go to Lounge/Theatre shows wearing the Carnival BATHROBES. :eek:

 

we were chuckling about a couple that wore their Carnival bathrobes to the midnight Gala Buffet. :rolleyes: To each his own!

[oysterfiend]

All I can say is they must be a

REALLY TIRED GENERATION

if it takes too much energy to get dressed.

 

I bet they'll cringe in 20 years time when the fads gone full circle and they are 30, 40, 50, or maybe even 60 something and they look back on their cruise photos.

Or maybe they won't care less!

 

I just live and let live these days.

I like polite people and thats more important to me.

I don't like wet scimpy swimsuits at the dinner table much though.

[Dee777]

Not bad advice at all. Did she also tell you to just wear whatever you wanted to school or church? :)

 

Actually, let me tell you what the deal was with my mother. I was raised along with my 5 siblings by my mother after my father was removed from the house for beating us all within the proverbial inch of our lives every Saturday night. She worked 3 jobs to support us all for many years. We did not have the best of anything, she found time to make clothes for us, and took us to church every Sunday. I used to complain to her how I wasn't dressed the same as the other kids, nothing in my wardrobe was in style, but I was covered and clean. She told us that the important thing was that we went to church, grew up to be decent and kind human beings and what we wore was irrelevant. I upheld that belief with my children, and I am certain they will with theirs, too. This could be why I to this day never notice what others are wearing. I look at the person, they are what is important.

 

I am looking forward to my cruise on Sunday, I intend to make new friends, have fun and make lasting memories with my family. I will not be interested in who wears what where.

 

Happy cruising to all, I will report back in 10 days or so!

Dee :)

[chrisandjeanne]

I work a lot with 18-21 year olds and in the last few years this fashion of wearing pajamas in public - especially the bottoms - has become more and more common. I have a 21 year old Marine in the program who almost always shows up in an old holey t-shirt, drawstring flannel pajama bottoms, and shower shoes. While this is shocking to those of us who are used to wearing more formal attire than this to open presents Christmas morning, the young crowd seems to accept it as normal casual attire.

[keishashadow]

My personal thoughts are that I would never wear PJ's out and about in public...but then again I wouldn't be caught dead in a pair of Crocs either.

How can people complain about PJ's when they're walking around in plastic shoes FTLOG??????????

 

gross. and I thought the '80's were a fashion nightmare. :rolleyes:

 

fyi, crocs are recommended by many orthopedic specialists as a last ditch solution after cortisone shots have failed & before foot surgery...to sooth damage done from many years of wearing spike high heels:rolleyes: walk a mile in my crocs & see how good your tootsies feel lol

 

didn't see anyone in "jammies" on lido deck in the am on last cruise, imo it's a come as your are affair anyway:confused: ; most people getting ready to lay out sun deck or head off to an excursion...comfort is the key here.

 

while i didn't subject anyone to the horror of staring @ my crocs during dinner in DR (stylish flats to match my cocktail dresses:D ); i was surprised to see:

 

1) women in otherwise appropriate attire with what i will call $ store thongs/clacks. Not the fashionable ones, the type you'd take to the gym & not worry about if you left them in the shower room KWIM? Just think it took away from their otherwise "doll'd up appearance"?

 

2) lovely younger couple across the way @ dinner (gent wore a tux most nights) came to late dinner on the beach night (sub'd for bathrobe one) more casually, he in a tommy bahama shirt (looked fine); she (a very thin, athletic build) in a string bikini/thong with an electric blue, sheer double sarong (one part wrapped around her neck ala a halter & the other barely covering her bottom.:eek: even the waiters seemed to be interested...and i assume they've seen it all.:p

[halos]

fyi, crocs are recommended by many orthopedic specialists as a last ditch solution after cortisone shots have failed & before foot surgery...to sooth damage done from many years of wearing spike high heels:rolleyes: walk a mile in my crocs & see how good your tootsies feel lol

 

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LOL..I don't want to debate you on the Crocs thing. If you noticed, I highlighted the word I in my statement. This means that I wouldn't, but I don't care what other people do.

I am truly sorry about your foot issues. My Mother has really bad feet which were made a lot worse after botched surgery, so I understand your situation. I don't condemn people who wear these shoes, by any means. It certainly shows more intelligece than a person like me who suffers in something tall and strappy....but it doesn't change the fact that they're ugly. I love clogs. I just wonder....Isn't there a way they can make a comfortable clog that isn't plastic??

My point is that I don't think anyone should complain about the casual pajamas when society accepts plastic footwear.

[terri910]

Actually, let me tell you what the deal was with my mother. I was raised along with my 5 siblings by my mother after my father was removed from the house for beating us all within the proverbial inch of our lives every Saturday night. She worked 3 jobs to support us all for many years. We did not have the best of anything, she found time to make clothes for us, and took us to church every Sunday. I used to complain to her how I wasn't dressed the same as the other kids, nothing in my wardrobe was in style, but I was covered and clean. She told us that the important thing was that we went to church, grew up to be decent and kind human beings and what we wore was irrelevant. I upheld that belief with my children, and I am certain they will with theirs, too. This could be why I to this day never notice what others are wearing. I look at the person, they are what is important.

 

I am looking forward to my cruise on Sunday, I intend to make new friends, have fun and make lasting memories with my family. I will not be interested in who wears what where.

 

Happy cruising to all, I will report back in 10 days or so!

Dee :)

I think you have a wonderful attitude. And your mother is to be admired, but I'm still guessing that when you were "covered and clean" in school and church that did not mean bathrobes or pajamas. I find it difficult to believe that when she went to the trouble of making your own clothes (my mother did that for me, as well) that she made you pajamas with the intention of you wearing them to school.

 

The fallacy of the general assumption that not having the very best or latest fashion equates to inappropriate is too common, and unfortunate. As is the fallacy that those who believe in some sort of social standard, yes even in one's dress, have skewed values.

[Snorkel2Much]

<<This is one personal observation from just one CC member>>

For me, I wear a tie each and every night to dinner on a cruise, without exception. On formal nights, I'll be in a suit or a tux. During the day on the ship (or while at a port stop) I'll wear some very appropriate coordinated selection.

When I get that 2:00 AM urge to have a couple slices of pizza, or some fresh air (as I rarely book balconies), I'll head out of my cabin in a dark color t-shirt, flannel lounge pants, and tennis shoes. No one has ever attempted to make me feel guilty about my choice of attire . . . and no one could. It wouldn't matter in the least. At home if I need to walk my dog very late at night (or in the wee AM hours), I easily head out into my neighborhood wearing the same. The people who might see me are the same one who see me, in a tie, walking the dog before I head out to work, or perhaps right after I get home. No matter what I'm wearing at any hour, they'll wave and smile, "Hey, how are you doing?"

 

On my Carnival Glory sailing this past September, there was a gentleman who arrived to the supper club, amongst chuckles and multiple whispers of, "Oh how ridiculous". He wore a matching suit, a top hat, and carried a white walking stick. He met all the suggested requirmements for proper dress on CCL. OK, true, the suit was bright pink, white shirt and red tie, white wing-tip shoes, and the hat was matching pink velvet (which he checked with the restaurant hostess). It was not a goof -- in his mind he was dressed to the nines. The hostess handled it all with perfect grace. The gentleman truly should be applauded more than mocked.

 

OK, I'd like to throw out one hypothetical question for this online group: Let's just say you are on one of the ships arriving tomorrow (1/3) to Port Canaveral. You've had a nice vacation cruise in the Caribbean, and it's time to meet reality and come home. You very suprisingly find that the temperature that morning is below freezing, and your long pants were packed in your luggage, which you left in the hall last evening for pickup. You have to choose between the shorts you left out to wear, or the flannel lounge pants you just slept in last night. The choice it yours -- perceived fashion correctness, or throw care to the wind and head out (yes, in public in broad daylight) in your PJ bottoms. I definitely know what I would do. How about you??

You mean everyone didn't think I was stylin' ????? :D

 

[vijoge]

You don't laugh at my clothes and I won't laugh at yours. . . ;)

[vijoge]

See previous post.

 

Times do change, however (not always for the better, but not always for the worse, either). Do teachers and school administrators now find pajamas acceptable in the classroom in normal circumstances? I mean, the important step is that the kids are there, right? Not whether they are learning anything about socialization and respect or consideration for others or anything like that.

 

Right?

 

My son graduated last year from a private high school where uniforms have always been worn and always will be.

 

He is now attending a small private university where it is common to see students attending class in flannel pants. Popular among the girls are flannel boxers, and yes, they do wear underwear with them. I've seen the boxers in catalogs and they don't have a fly that opens like men's underwear.

 

They don't look any worse than the mini-skirts and hip-hugger elephant bells I wore at that age.

[Theresa522]

I could care less. Someone who wears PJ's is not going to ruin my long awaited cruise. As long as they are not naked :eek:

[Theresa522]

My personal thoughts are that I would never wear PJ's out and about in public...but then again I wouldn't be caught dead in a pair of Crocs either.

How can people complain about PJ's when they're walking around in plastic shoes FTLOG??????????

 

gross. and I thought the '80's were a fashion nightmare. :rolleyes:

 

Oh my, I totally agree with you also!! I watched the worst styles of 2007 and crocs were #1 on the list. No shocker here! :D

[kiraryker]

Remember when we wore Jellies??? Plastic sandals in every color? But the problem with those was they actually hurt your feet at least crocks are suppose to feel good (I don't own a pair)

 

I wore my bright jellies with my bright plastic swatch watch!!! Oh the good times

[halos]

Remember when we wore Jellies??? Plastic sandals in every color? But the problem with those was they actual hurt your feet at least crocks are suppose to feel good (I don't own a pair)

 

I wore my bright jellies with my bright plastic swatch watch!!! Oh the good times

 

 

I am happy to say I owned neither jellies or a swatch. ;) I will confess to wearing earth Shoes...with straight leg jeans (YUK)

[BlasterDave]

and I thought the '80's were a fashion nightmare. :rolleyes:

 

Hey, I wore my parachute pants very proudly in the 80's. And i was COOL!!!! :D ;)

[halos]

Hey, I wore my parachute pants very proudly in the 80's. And i was COOL!!!! :D ;)

 

OMG...LOl forgot about them. Didn't wear those but did wear white carpenter pants! :eek:

 

70's were SO much better. ;)

[cw5joevon]

Times change though. Consider this a view of the future, eh?

 

Change is scary to some people, but that's okay, it's going to happen anyway. :)

 

 

Or going Vol ;)

Why must you SC fans always look for opportunities to take a stab at those poor tigs?

[angelsx4]

Thank you Brittney Spears for that hideous fashion blunder. After last night's episode in her life, I'm sure we'll be seeing kids running around with straight jackets soon too. :)

[Sneezykevina]

If I wear one of my wifes dresses would it be inapropriate? :eek: (I know I really couldn't fit into one, just had to say it)

[halos]

If I wear one of my wifes dresses would it be inapropriate? :eek: (I know I really couldn't fit into one, just had to say it)

 

You'll need to shave first. :p

[Sneezykevina]

You'll need to shave first. :p

 

Shave what :eek:

[halos]

Shave what :eek:

 

:D :D :D

all of it.

[Sneezykevina]

:D :D :D

all of it.

 

That's downright CRUEL!

 

I kinda thought the Klinger from MASH look would get better attention:D

 

[halos]

That's downright CRUEL!

 

I kinda thought the Klinger from MASH look would get better attention:D

 

 

LOL.

That it would!! :p