 Poster: A snowHead
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I arrived at a hotel once to see a woman in her 50s sitting casually at the bar wearing shiny plastic knee-high platform boots, a laced-up corset and very short skirt. I think people were wondering if someone had ordered 'extra services', but no, it was just how she liked to dress on ski holidays!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@HoneyBunny, we're all like that on a Bash. Like to get a bit of competition going.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| pam w wrote: |
| @HoneyBunny, we're all like that on a Bash. . |
Including admin? The mind boggles.
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but cannot remember ever wearing more than shorts/jeans
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Oh please, shorts at breakfast (especially running shorts)....urgh! Its enough to put you off your Weetybangs. I would say smart casual would be decent trousers plus a shirt with a collar (i.e polo shirt) in the evening.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Decent trousers and polo shirts?
It's not an IT seminar, it's a holiday.
It's just means that the management frown upon guests wearing ski gear at the table
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| moody_git wrote: |
Decent trousers and polo shirts?
It's not an IT seminar, it's a holiday.
It's just means that the management frown upon guests wearing ski gear at the table |
You wont see decent trousers at an IT seminar, ill fitting shiny cheap ones more like.
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No, @T Bar, Admin is the judge
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He dresses up as a judge??
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Why is it that some people think the skins they run in are suitable breakfast wear without some sort of
Modesty cover? I do not need to know what surgery you've endured gents!!! |
I can say with some confidence that I have never felt the urge to stare sufficiently closely at other guests' knees to notice their surgical scars. But I suppose everyone needs a hobby.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@dogwatch Sat here nursing two recovering knees so that made me laugh!!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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often if you look at the hotels own website youll see what the photo stooges are wearing which even if you dont follow the lead will give you an idea of what the management are aiming for, personally dont mind making a bit of effort at dinner so long as mrs sff doesnt take more than the time it takes me to swig a beer to change
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You know it makes sense.
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@JanA At places I've worked at with a smart casual dress code (all offices) it has meant something like: no torn jeans / t-shirts / bare midriffs; no flip-flops or scruffy trainers; large tattoos covered, etc. No need for jackets or dresses (for either men or women  )
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@maggi, Agreed!
A friend in Limone once got sent from the restaurant at breakfast time for wearing ski socks (clean ones) with no shoes. He was very grumpy about that 
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Swissie wrote: |
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but cannot remember ever wearing more than shorts/jeans
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Oh please, shorts at breakfast (especially running shorts)....urgh! Its enough to put you off your Weetybangs. I would say smart casual would be decent trousers plus a shirt with a collar (i.e polo shirt) in the evening. |
At the risk of sounding stuffy, a Polo shirt may be smart casual during the day but short sleeves in the evening?????
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@foxtrotzulu, In an over-heated Alpine hotel I would think it would be fine.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Stayed in an Austrian Hotel with similar "rules". What it really meant was not wearing ski gear at dinner, and not going to breakfast in pajamas.
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^^^^ this!
I have stayed in 3-star right through to 5-star hotels in a variety of Alpine countries and "smart casual" is the normal order of the day for all meals in the dining rooms/restaurants. For me that meant getting dressed in the morning in jeans and poloshirt or blouse, then going back to my room to change into my ski gear. For evening meals, it means the same, even in the poshest of 5-star unless they state there is an evening dress code, everyone is happy just as long as you are not in your ski gear, sweaty sports stuff from the fitness room or towelling robe from the swimming pool/sauna areas.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Dress codes are funny things, usually associated with the generation above mine. I remember some very nouveau riche neighbours of my parents thinking the were a cut above the rest of the village for taking holidays in 5 star hotels where a shirt with tie was required for dinner in the evening.
I have always tried to avoid anywhere with a dress code simply as they tend to attract the dullest of iindivuals who falsy believe that attending a place with a dress code gives them some kind of status -golf clubs being the classic example.
That said, I do respect the Europeans for maintaing the formality of the family evening meal. I see them meet, dressed nicely for their eveing get togethers and do sometimes wonder if the British have let things slip with our onesies and the like.
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@foxtrotzulu,
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but short sleeves in the evening?????
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I can't decide if you're having a laugh or not?
I can't imagine why anybody would be offended by the sight of someone else's forearms.
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sometimes wonder if the British have let things slip with our onesies and the like.
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anyone over 7 years old looks ridiculous in a onesie.
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short sleeves in the evening?????
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priceless, FTZ.
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Being a Downton fan, I now always change into a strappy, beaded dress, with pearls, a clutch bag and matching Mary Jane shoes.
Nothing less is acceptable! 
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We have a friend who took 5 pairs of stiletto heels on her first ski trip to Bulgaria back in the early 1990s . She has never been allowed to live it down.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I don't even own 5 pairs of stilettos any more. Must be getting old ..... 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| foxtrotzulu wrote: |
| queen bodecia wrote: |
| Our work dress code is described as 'smart casual' which means that we all wear jeans, hoodies, trainers, clean and in good condition. |
I'm not saying you are inappropriately dressed for whatever work you do, open air pharmaceutical sales perhaps, but you'd be pushed to describe that as 'smart casual.' 😀 |
Context is everything QB works in a creative industry so anything more trad than an avantgarde binbag/tinfoil dress probably meets the criteria. Merikin mortgage company office it probably means pretty rigidly Polo Shirt & Chinos.
Last edited by And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports. on Wed 17-02-16 21:58; edited 1 time in total
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@maggi, nor I, but I have one more pair than I did yesterday, as the only pair of shoes to go with an oufit I bought for a wedding are stilettos. 
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You know it makes sense.
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| swiftoid wrote: |
@foxtrotzulu,
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but short sleeves in the evening?????
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I can't decide if you're having a laugh or not?
I can't imagine why anybody would be offended by the sight of someone else's forearms. |
I never said anyone would be offended by the sight of someone else's forearms. I just said that I can't really equate any usual definition of 'smart/casual' with wearing a short sleeved shirt in the evening in a winter setting. Polo shirts can be very 'smart/casual' but IMO not really in that setting. However you define them I wonder why anyone would want to wear a short sleeved shirt in that scenario. To me it would be like wearing an overcoat while sitting on a tropical beach, or a dinner jacket to watch a football match etc.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Hells Bells wrote: |
| We have a friend who took 5 pairs of stiletto heels on her first ski trip to Bulgaria back in the early 1990s . She has never been allowed to live it down. |
Whatever did she do on the final night? Nothing left to wear could you buy them in Bulgaria back then?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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In a really smart dining room a woman could well wear a dress with quite a low neckline and no sleeves at all. She'd have checked the mink, of course..... (I saw more mink coats in a couple of evenings in Cortina than I've seen in the whole of the rest of my life).
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@cameronphillips2000, Completely agree with you about golf clubs. Truly ghastly places and a ruination of decent countryside.
Re: dress codes. I think a lot of places have dress codes not to inflict their own ideas on others, but to help people feel relaxed by not being over/under dressed. Many people won't care, but many will.
Does it count as a dress code when you are invited to dinner at a friends house and Mrs CP asks what everyone is wearing? To be told "Whatever you like" or "just jeans" or "dinner jackets" or "we're dressing up a bit as it's x's birthday"?
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Golf is a game of the Gods that I'm sure is played on the Elysian fields. Very few clubs have particularly onerous dress codes these days.
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@foxtrotzulu,
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If the winter setting is irrelevant do you think it would be completely appropriate to wear shorts in the restaurant with your short sleeved shirt?
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I wouldn't give it a second thought if I saw somebody in shorts and a short sleeved shirt in a ski hotel restaurant. I'm mostly unconcerned about anybody else in a restaurant unless they're being loud and annoying and disrupting the enjoyment of our meal. What they're wearing is unimportant to me. I don't tend to spend my time worrying about random strangers whose attire has no impact on me whatsoever.
Edited to add: Nor do I care if some random stranger with nothing better to worry about doesn't like the length of the sleeves of my shirt.
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When I was at school my headmaster who had utterly no tolerance to be addressed by anything other than Mr XXXXXX (so of course we all referred to him as Lenny) used to lead skis trips and was never seen with less than a full collar and tie, and more often a sports jacket under his (very formal navy or khaki) parka. He'd be turning in his grave over teachers wearing hoodies on school trips.
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I can't remember the last time I saw a man wearing a suit and tie. I think times have changed. What was considered 'dress down' is now normal daily wear. Whether you think this is a good or a bad thing is up to you. Personally I'm all for it, what you wear does not define who you are and what you can do.
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Very few clubs have particularly onerous dress codes these days.
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Great friends of mine are very keen golfers. His club doesn't allow jeans and she rarely wears anything else. So she joined a different club.
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would it be appropriate (note that I didn't say 'wrong') for the aforementioned woman to be accompanied by a man in a short sleeved shirt?
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No, and she might refuse to go with him if he was dressed down. Just as I would go and sit somewhere else if my partner decided to wear a suit and tie to dinner in a ski hotel. My example was just to point out that the length of sleeves had nothing to do with the outside weather (pace your example of wearing a coat on a tropical beach)
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