Leaving end of the month on vacation. During the day, are most women wearing slacks or shorts to tour? How cool doe sit get at night? People very dressed up in the evening? Help please

Capris, slacks or skirts for touring, no shorts. The Weather Channel website can give you the forecasts.

Have just returned from Prague and Budapest. Definitely slacks and capris as lucy suggests. No shorts unless you are 20, have fabulous legs and can wear short shorts or you will stick out a mile.

Generally speaking people weren't dressed up in the evening, the only exception being the Opera in Budapest where people certainly had made an effort. I wore the black slacks that I had been using as day wear and teamed it with the one, definitely after 5 type top, that I took with me and a good pair of shoes. This outfit certainly did for the couple of posh restaurants we went to as well, but I didn't feel as though it was absolutely necessary to have got as dressed up at these.

It was in fact very hot whilst we were t=away - we were wearing the clothes that we had packed for our 3 day stopover in Bangkok, but this was very unseasonal. All the locals were complaining.

Regardless of what the weather is expected to be, I would never travel without a jumper or jacket to allow for a cooler day or evening.

if you are planning to watch evening concerts held at some churches, museums (i highly recommend this, quite inexpensive too compared w/ what you'd pay in the US), nice, little more dressy, casual attire would be nice since you'd be in some very nice surroundings. this gets you in the groove of the whole concert going experience. i highly recommend the concert at the schonnbrunn palace in vienna and in prague, the concert at the museum that starts with an "R" ( can't remember the name )but it's in the old town section.

Just for fun...What do you wear when you go to a local restaurant? What do you wear to the supermarket? Do you dress to please a partner? A better question: I am ----- years old and I weigh ------- pounds. We are traveling --------- class. Wardrobe advice, please.

We are also just back from Vienna, Prague, and Budapest. Shandy has answered well. Slacks will do it. Include some black ones with a dressy top or two and you'll be fine. Leave the jewelry at home.

These cities all have fine music and restaurant offerings. Those who go do dress for them.

It is very rare to see adult women wearing shorts in central europe unless at a resort or doing something athletic. Wear lightweight pants, capris or skirts - with some sort of comfy walking shoe (LOTS of cobblestones). For evening you don;t have to be dressed up unless you're doing something really special - but I would have 1/2 nicer outfits for dinner/concerts (ie silk pants suit nd real shoes - I do wedges since they're sturdier).

You're not in the mountains in any of these places and It doesn;t get especailly cool at night - some sort of light jacket or wrap is the most you would need.

I will be going to Prague in September. Will city shorts (just below the knee) be as acceptable as capris? Or stick to the longer capris?

A woman contemplating wearing shorts needs an honest spouse or friend.

A woman contemplating wearing shorts in a city can take me as an honest friend when I say: leave them at home.

Don't try (if you will excuse the pun) to skirt around the question by quibbling about the length.

[For the purpose of this discussion, capris are not counted as shorts unless they are too tight on the hips.]

Well said Padraig.

I make an exception for statuesque women with shapely calves and wearing very high heels.

I haven't worn a pair of shorts on the streets since I was about 16.

I'm off to Vienna today for two days. Shall I take some pictures of what people wear?

What is this thing about shorts? Nobody wears shorts in town, they are beach/sport wear. Thin linen or cotton pants are way cooler – or a flowing longish skirt. Sun on bare legs doesn´t make one cooler, it is the contrary.

Lawchick wrote: "I haven't worn a pair of shorts on the streets since I was about 16."

I suppose you didn't wear those impossibly high shoes then. You are killing my little fantasy.

City shorts - if they're really city shorts - that is tailored, reaching the knee and worn with a pretty top (not just a baggy cami - really ladies - few of us are perky enough to pull that off after about 25).

Even in November we saw lots of tourists of various ages wearing shorts--not short-shorts, but to the knee or just above. Many seemed to be from Great Britain on a long weekend of Christmas shopping.

It was very hot in Vienna today. I saw many people wearing shorts and flip flops. The ones I heard speaking were american.

for lawchick- so did you get the pics? guys in shorts too?

I didn't take any pics per se except private ones - which were of a family event with most people wearing traditional clothes. I don't think you want to see them. Indeed there were guys in shorts - lederhosen!