dress cuture in nice

what is the current dress cuture in nice?

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anthing you like.

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anything you like.

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Hi

Just got back from Nice. I was there as a kid with relatives (in the early 1960s), and remember them dressing up all the time, so asked on this forum about dress codes, and was assured that it was all a lot more informal now.

And it is, in general; as responders to my post said, you can go to restaurants, etc wearing teeshirt/singlet/shorts/swimming shorts. On one occasion, tho, my wife and I walked up from the beach at Villefranche to go and get a drink at a cafe after a swim. Neither of us were quite dry, but I%26#39;d put on a teeshirt anyway to keep the sun off my shoulders. She was just wearing a bikini. She was going to dry off a minute or two more then put on some more clothes. Some middle-aged guy came over to us and had a go at her about being dressed properly; he wasn%26#39;t yelling, but he was annoyed about it all the same, and she explained that she was about to get dressed, etc etc. We wondered for a second if he was the patron of the place, but no, he just walked off out of there.

We sort of took his point, but this place wasn%26#39;t the Ritz, just a cafe/bar. It wasn%26#39;t very crowded, and other people there didn%26#39;t seem offended. He was just some local bully who gets annoyed at all the tourists, maybe, and felt like venting a bit...

Apart from that, as people say, it%26#39;s informal. And apart from him, everybody was really courteous... (Even this guy was courteous, tho, so wrong word, maybe) People were welcoming and friendly and fun, as they usually are in France.

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Yes, anything goes in Nice as far as dress. The one thing I did notice was that women wore skirts/sun dresses down to the beach. No baggy tee-shirts like we might do here in the USA. Take beach shoes along to wear on the beach rocks AND in the Sea...those rocks are hard on the feet. Enjoy.

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No self-respecting French woman would be seen dead in baggy T-shirts OR ill-fitting jeans.

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People do dress up more in France but it%26#39;s up to you whether you join in with this or not. I see someone posted their story of going into a cafe wearing bikini and other beach wear. this would be considered extremely strange behaviour in France! On the other hand it%26#39;s normal to wear very little indeed on the beach. Topless is quite normal.

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People do dress up a lot more in France, and in Italy too, and that%26#39;s something we should admire, I think - it%26#39;s good to make an effort, and shows good manners to guests and tourists and one another.

Maybe we%26#39;re too used to going to the Greek islands, Balearics, etc, where they seem to allow anybody to wear anything at any time as long as they%26#39;re spending money... Maybe it%26#39;s an illustration of local economics.

But we were wrong to go into a cafe so unthinkingly - after all, it%26#39;s not like my wife needed to put on that much, just some shorts and a triathlon top-type-thing - forgetting that even tho we%26#39;d just come off the beach, Villefranche is still a town where people live and go about their day-to-day business.

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is it wear to wear jean in the evening?

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all depends where you are going in the evening. There is no formal wear in Nice unless you go to super classy restaurants. But nonetheless even if it is not formal, a minimum of touch is advisable.

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Same as in, e.g, Brighton.