Posted on 06/26/2023 6:22:04 AM PDT by aquila48
If you want to visit some of Italy’s stellar attractions – the Pantheon, St Peter’s Basilica, Florence’s Duomo – you’ll need to be dressed appropriately.
As religious sites, there are strict rules surrounding clothing and covering up.
While these regulations are long-standing, some communities in Italy have also recently introduced strict dress codes when walking around town.
Here’s everything you need to know about what to wear as a tourist in Italy.
What to wear to visit churches in Italy
Many of Italy’s top attractions are churches, cathedrals or religious complexes.
If you want to ensure you’re not turned away at the entrance, you must follow certain clothing rules.
Often, a sign outside indicates what you can and can’t wear. It is forbidden for both men and women to enter with uncovered shoulders, midriffs or knees.
That means no spaghetti straps, sleeveless tops, crop tops, shorts, or above-the-knee dresses.
Some attractions may offer shawls or cover-ups if you are dressed inappropriately, but others may turn you away at the door.
Earlier this month, an Australian traveler posted on TikTok about wearing an overly revealing outfit when in Rome.
The 26-year-old’s white dress was too short and too low cut, meaning she was barred from entering the Vatican, the Pantheon and the Museum of the Dead.
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TTIWWP
Dress in a dignified manner when visiting sacred places.
If tourists can't demonstrate respect for the culture they are visiting, stay home, wear what makes you happy, and watch a movie.
Oh, I don’t know. I thinking dressing like a hooker is appropriate wear for visiting the Vatican these days...
Just mean’s beautiful wraps will become the latest trend in fashion. It is a good thing in my opinion. They make great gifts too.
“Italian POWs riding in trucks to do farm work making wolf whistles and leering at women”
My dad was Army, we were stationed in Italy in the late 60s for a couple of years.....as young as I was I still remember my mom being pinched on the rear by italian men on a number of occasions.
We used to have dress codes for White House visitors, too. When my kids had year end DC visits at their schools, they were given strict clothing codes.
Nowadays, you can pull down your top and expose your breasts. Or at least, some can.
Betcha a trannie can wear anything he,she,it wants.
I visited St Peter’s when a teenager, when just about everyone smoked. I think it was in the portico that someone had a cigarette in his mouth. The attendant said something to him. When I guess he didn’t respond fast enough, the attendant slapped it right out of his mouth
Send in the drag queens!
I remember when my parents took my sister to the bus station in the mid-1960’s for a trip to college. Everyone was dressed like they were going to church. My sister had decided not to wear the elbow length gloves. Then a few short years later the hippies were wearing jeans they’d purposely ripped the knees out of. What a change.
In my engineering career men may have hated each other, but I never saw anyone come to physical blows. We all wore long sleeve shirts and ties. But when people started coming to work in ripped pants and torn t-shirts I witnessed an increasing number of physical assaults and none of them resulted in someone being fired. A couple of men actually quit when the company didn’t fire the person who assaulted them. I believe that part of the violence we’re seeing is a general lack of sartorial deportment. When you’re dressed “professionally” you act professional. Reminds me of an awesome short story, “The Clothes Make the Man.” A criminal is left on lookout dressed as a cop. Over the course of the story he identifies as a cop and blows the whistle on his criminal buddies. It was an awesome story and very true.
Too bad our Baptist churches don’t get on board with this. Sometimes the teenage girls look like they’ll leave church and head directly for their stroll in the red light district.
Pastor and members have no problem loudly “offending” abortionists, homosexuals, etc., but they don’t want to drive kids away.
Personally, I think the kids would appreciate some direction and verbal discipline. Many of them come from homes where discernment isn’t even understood, much less taught.
Look at a picture of tourists at these attractions from 50 years ago. No one had to tell them to dress appropriately. Hell, look at a picture of people on an airplane, or just walking down the street in any major city, from pre-1970. The decline in what counts as “dress code” over my lifetime has been astonishing.
At least the beaches are still topless :)
“Dress in a dignified manner when visiting sacred places.”
When I go to church ALONE to practice organ, I take off my jeans and put on a dress or skirt.
“ the attendant slapped it right out of his mouth”
Well…WWJD?
15-20 years ago my wife and I visited Florence and were stopped at the entrance of the major cathedral where Michelangelo is entombed.
My wife was wearing shorts and she was provided a wrap before she could enter...
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