Comments on: Dress Code Change. Shorts are OK!

By: Leena

Leena — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:52:06 +0000

Hi,

I’m going to Costa Rica on Dec. 31st, 2009 (in two days) with two girlfriends and we are staying in Alajuela our first night… We’d love to find a restaurant or bar or party to celebrate the New Year’s… Any ideas??? Thanks in advance!

Leena

By: SkipEurope

SkipEurope — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:14:46 +0000

Nice blog.

@Mario: why should style be important? Every human is an individuum with his own style, so there should be no limits at what people should wear. I don’t understand how someone can be offended by someones elses clothes as it does not affect your life in any way.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:55:56 +0000

You should have your reply by now. You got caught in the SPAM trap.

By: lisa

lisa — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:39:02 +0000

hello, is there still a way to email you? my email using the link you provided has received failure notices…

By: Stan

Stan — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:32:27 +0000

Interesting. For 10 years, I have always arrived wearing slacks and buttoned shirt so as not to offend anyone with my Gringo-ness (although I am a white African). Never would I dare wear a T-shirt or shorts while in San Jose. But as soon as I clear the city limits on my way to my home in Dominical, I pull over and change to beach attire. Did the same on the return trip. But even knowing that the rules are relaxed, I am sure that I will continue the practice. Even though the rules may have changed, the culture will remain intact for years to come.

By: JC

JC — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:34:29 +0000

We, as Gringos have become very lax as “anything goes”. Being lazy Americans makes us appear as if we do not subscribe to any code of conduct or appearance. In the USA many years ago, a man would not leave the house without his hat (this is why the military, I am sure still requires servicemen to have proper headdress). If the rule said no shorts, I, personally would say that if that were the rule, I have two choices: comply or leave.

Just my humble opinion.

Thank you,

By: miguel

miguel — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:44:26 +0000

Speaking about funny farms…the words of an old song come to mind…sometimes I’m not sure if it’ll be me or my wife that will join them first…

They’re coming to take me away, HA HA
They’re coming to take me away, HO HO HEE HEE HA HA
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I’ll be happy to see
Those nice, young men
In their clean, white coats
And they’re coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!

I’m all for comfort…when we were living on Maui…shorts and an aloha shirt was standard wear…although there’s place’s where it would have been out of line and we dressed accordingly…just old school I suppose.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:38:11 +0000

Nice web site (blog) you have Mario…

Not sure about most of the public. What I do know is that I hope and prey that CR does not follow the lead of the US in controlling people’s lives. Obviously, there has to be limits and I am sure there are those who will push those limits. As for me… leave people alone. But I am just a visitor, albeit permanently… just my thoughts.

By: Mario

Mario — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:21:24 +0000

Reminds me of something like 10 years ago, when schools had set regulations on allowable length of hair, use of jewlery, and so forth. Eventually it made its way up to the courts and the regulations had to be dropped.

Although you have to wonder, at what point a cigar stops being a cigar. Under the court ruling a public office is now basically incapable of enforcing regulations out of consideration for “most of the public”. So, what happens to “most of the public”’s right to not be offended by those few specimens that have absolutely no sense of coherence, hygene or style in their dress code?