Dress code

"Standards dropping further"

Exactly what part about someone else wearing shorts to dinner affects your meal, cruise, or any aspect of your life in any way?

There's a good percentage of us that don't dress for work. nevermind dinner.

"Standards dropping further"

 

Exactly what part about someone else wearing shorts to dinner affects your meal, cruise, or any aspect of your life in any way?

 

There's a good percentage of us that don't dress for work. nevermind dinner.

Many people prefer to have a particular ambiance in certain restaurants. Different strokes for different folks.

Not sure whose standards are dropping? NCL makes the rules and then gives us options within those rules. There are so many cruise lines out there with very strict dress codes for those that want them. If NCL didn't start the trend, they certainly were a leader in casual dining on cruise ships. I personally like the ability to dress up or down as I please. And I thank NCL for giving all of us the option. What other wear or don't wear does not bother me at all.

Thank you all. This time around I may very well bring less dressy clothes. I always overpack. I'm going to try to be better and pack less.

"Standards dropping further"

 

Exactly what part about someone else wearing shorts to dinner affects your meal, cruise, or any aspect of your life in any way?

 

There's a good percentage of us that don't dress for work. nevermind dinner.

I think maybe it's a British thing. Over the years I've seen "standards" of dress falling. Work as you point out is one of those places, as are casino's, and largely thanks to the fast food outlets, dinner for many people has become a gulp it down affair.

Many young people today have never dressed for dinner, and a lot of respect and how to behave in a restaurant has disappeared. Half the time I go out to eat and it's more like feeding time at the zoo, with noise to match.

Too casual approach in a restaurant at dinner, ends up with people treating the occasion with contempt, and rather than being special, it's much like being in McDonalds.

If you can't be bothered wearing smart trousers to dinner, then there is always the buffet, pub, or room service.

Freestyle was supposed to stop the inflexible seating times, it doesn't mean we should lower standards of dress.

Anyway I may be in the minority, and before anyone tells me, I have a choice. For me that has cut down a dining option, not increased one, and that may play a part in choosing future cruises.

Many people choose to dress up because they want their pictures taken on the ship.

Poor manners and dining habits have nothing to do with how you dress. You can be well mannered in a bathing suit and be a slob in a tux.

I think for many the changing standards are a shock. I don't tolerate ill mannered slobs, but I don't much care what you wear.

When I go to a restaurant with a dress code, NYC has a few, I follow the code.

NCL has decided what their dress code is, and I'm fine with it. Doesn't mean I appreciate the ill mannered.:o

I think maybe it's a British thing. Over the years I've seen "standards" of dress falling.

You're sounding like the old bird on Downton Abbey when the Irish guy wore Black Tie instead of White Tie.....really, can't you wear what you want and ignore what everyone else is wearing?

Freestyle was supposed to stop the inflexible seating times

It was also supposed to do away with rules that cruise lines had about what you can wear and when.

It was also supposed to do away with rules that cruise lines had about what you can wear and when.

Does this mean that men can wear "wife-beater," and sleeveless tops to dinner, can women come to dinner in a swimsuit. NOPE!!!!!

I think maybe it's a British thing.

I must assume you are an Oxford man as my friends from Cambridge are quite fond of reminiscing about tossing on their gowns over shorts and a t-shirt for their "formal" dinners - gowns which they took quite a lot of gleeful pride in not washing for the entirety of their three years. These days, some of the less successful ones come to dinners in their business suits, but most have no compunction about dining in one of London's many Michelin-starred restaurants in clean jeans and a polo shirt.

It was also supposed to do away with rules that cruise lines had

about what you can wear and when.

With the airlines limiting baggage, rules have changed.

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