After dinner clothes

My DH and I are going on our first cruise in 14 days!! (Eeek!) I'm curious to know what everyone does after dinner (casual and formal nights). Do you stay in your dress all night until you retire to your room? Do you wear your dress for dinner then change into something comfortable? Do you wear your dress then change into another cute outfit?

I plan on living in gym shorts/tshirts during the day. Do I need to pack more "cutsie" outfits for the evenings??

We always stay in our evening clothes until we retire to our cabin for the night.

It will vary from person to person. Also, if you have earlier seating, and you wear high heeled shoes you aren't used to wearing, you may feel more inclined to change.

I tend to change, because we will often go out on deck. Sometimes we sit on the lounge chairs out there, sometimes we do not. I don't want to get my dresses dirty, but I especially don't want to have to hold them down with the wind.

I stay in my outfit after dinner. My husband does most of the time. Sometimes on formal night he will change out of his tux, into dress pants and a dress shirt.

I almost always change after dinner into something more comfortable on casual nightsand always after formal night dinner is done and pictures are taken.

Whatever I wear to dinner, I wear for the whole evening.

We stay in our dinner dress until we retire to our cabin.

Mary Lou

Whatever I wear to dinner, I wear for the whole evening.

 

Unless I've spilled dinner on myself.

I love to dress up! So I wear a dress to dinner every night & sometimes I'll stay in it but other times I I change into something more relaxed but still cute for the dance club/comedy lounge ... Interesting though I was curious myself as to what others did.

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I don't change, it's my chance to be dressed up!

I always stayed dressed unless I decide to do the jogging track after dinner.

Then is workout clothes. Then shower and jammies and bed.:)

We always stay in whatever we wear to dinner also .. like some others it is one of the few chances to dress up and feel elegant all night.

The DH and I always choose late seating for dinner in the MDR so we tend to stay in whatever we wore to dinner. However, I will sometimes go to our cabin and change out of my heels and put on a jacket if we're planning to walk or sit out on the deck.

I usually plan for two outfits a day. When in port, I'll wear whatever I need to depending on what our excursion is and then I'll have an outfit to wear to dinner. On Sea Days, I'll wear something comfy all day and then change into something nice for dinner.

Hope you have an amazing cruise!:D

We also wear all evening whatever we wore to dinner. I try not to buy clothes that are so uncomfortable that I can't wear them for an entire evening.

I stay in whatever I wore to dinner .

Since we usually get late dining I stay in my same clothing because it's straight to the shows afterwards. If I'm going to the disco later that evening I might change into something more casual.

We keep whatever we wear to dinner on until bedtime...usually, it's casualwear,.. but when it's "FORMAL" night, we still keep that on....silly to go to the trouble of lookin' good, and then changing!

On Cunard, whatever the dress code is for dinner is the dress code pretty much throughout the ship for the whole evening. So if it's formal, you stay in those formal clothes until retiring to your cabin. It really does make for a very elegant overall experience, for those who like such things. If you don't want to get dressed formally on formal nights, you can eat in the buffet and there is one lounge/bar area where you can go. Even "informal" nights are petty dressy by some standards, i.e. jackets needed for men (ties optional), and nice dresses or "smart" pants for women. Same type of evening rules apply, so you'll never see people changing out of their outfits after dinner and into jeans, shorts or work-out type clothing.

But it's an interesting point about the pitfalls of sitting out on deck in one's "good" clothing. Hmmm... We're going on a Queen Mary 2 westbound transatlantic crossing in October so I'll have to check out what the evening deck chair situation might be (but October may be too cool in the north Atlantic for evening deck chair sitting). We did a prior eastbound QM crossing in early June, and I recall it being pretty nippy outside in the evening--and very windy.

Since I get no chance to "dress up" in real life, I like to stay in my dinner clothes. I also enjoy seeing others looking so nice!

I typically wear whatever I've worn to dinner. I may change into flats or more comfortable shoes though.

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Since I get no chance to "dress up" in real life, I like to stay in my dinner clothes. I also enjoy seeing others looking so nice!

I'm with you!! [emoji2]

We stay dressed up until retiring to our cabin for the night. Although I have noticed a few people who have changed on formal night, or maybe they opted for an alternative dining venue, the vast majority of people remain in their dress clothes.

Unless I've spilled dinner on myself.

Funny Above! :D This can happen or someone could spill red wine on you.

The last thing we want of do is get dressed again.

The exception was when we were watching a Football Game after dinner and needed to get into our team's logo shirts. :)

LuLu

I don't usually change after dinner, but if I do it would because I was cold. I have been known to run back and change into slacks and more comfy shoes.

The only times I've changed after dinner is if I'm going to be outside, like for the movie under the stars or to watch a football game. But I tend to dress pretty comfortable. A dress and some sort of strappy sandals or ballet flats. Maybe if I wore heels then I'd want to ditch those after dinner.