jeans in italy
Apr 1st, 2004, 03:11 PM
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Whew!!
Didn't mean to raise a jeans ruckess - frankly I just want to not look or act like an "ugly American" and I have heard that Florence is classical so just want to not offend.
Oh, and to the idiot poster (you know who you are), I have been on 16 cruises, travelled the world, including Italy 4 times and will continue to travel whether you and your band of snotty, arrogant anti American e-mailers like it or not!
Didn't mean to raise a jeans ruckess - frankly I just want to not look or act like an "ugly American" and I have heard that Florence is classical so just want to not offend.
Oh, and to the idiot poster (you know who you are), I have been on 16 cruises, travelled the world, including Italy 4 times and will continue to travel whether you and your band of snotty, arrogant anti American e-mailers like it or not!
Apr 1st, 2004, 03:47 PM
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Florence is classical but there are some scruffy looking people there too, so since you seem like a sensitive person, wear your jeans and take nicer pants with you too.
If you wear nice, pressed, clean jeans with a good cut and paired with nice sweaters or shirts you will be fine, add some nice loafers and you will be stunning.
Florence and Rome are classical but there are some scruffy looking people there too, so since you seem like a sensitive person, wear your jeans and take nicer pants with you too.
And get some Italian sunglasses!
If you wear nice, pressed, clean jeans with a good cut and paired with nice sweaters or shirts you will be fine, add some nice loafers and you will be stunning.
Florence and Rome are classical but there are some scruffy looking people there too, so since you seem like a sensitive person, wear your jeans and take nicer pants with you too.
And get some Italian sunglasses!
Apr 1st, 2004, 03:58 PM
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I KNOW, I'M REPEATING MYSELF.
I've found that the best way to determine dress for a vacation in Europe is to check out the clothing and shoes in a foreign film. The most informative is that wonderful opus by Pierre Leconte - "Ridicule".
If I may steal from Janet Maislin's review in the NY Times:
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Among the film's more piquant historical touches are a scene in which deaf-mutes mocked by these aristocrats wind up having the last laugh, and another in which a visit is paid to the French court by an American Sioux warrior, whose regalia is duly criticized. ''And yet, he almost makes us look ridiculous,'' one of the film's foppish characters observes. No one really listens.
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I've found that the best way to determine dress for a vacation in Europe is to check out the clothing and shoes in a foreign film. The most informative is that wonderful opus by Pierre Leconte - "Ridicule".
If I may steal from Janet Maislin's review in the NY Times:
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Among the film's more piquant historical touches are a scene in which deaf-mutes mocked by these aristocrats wind up having the last laugh, and another in which a visit is paid to the French court by an American Sioux warrior, whose regalia is duly criticized. ''And yet, he almost makes us look ridiculous,'' one of the film's foppish characters observes. No one really listens.
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