Dress code in continental opera houses?

[gurnemanz]

I was thinking of the Zamek Książąt Pomorskich in Szczecin, where I used to go to lunchtime concerts on a Sunday. Szczecin is near the coast so it's nothing like as cold as Warsaw, say, and the cloakroom was more Western-European in size and staffing levels, and your coat probably wasn't that bulky anyway. I tried to sneak mine in once or twice, but I soon learned.

In Moscow where they take these things seriously the cloakrooms are vast - and they have a special space for your boots, and one at the top for your fur hat.

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When in Rome ..... In Germany they always hand in all accessories at the "Garderobe", so I join in even though I usually avoid doing so in UK.

[jean]

Why is this thread all about men and suits?

[teamsaint]

Why is this thread all about men and suits?

Seems to be mostly blokes discussing their clothing issues.
Prolly a bit out of our depth on dress codes for women ?

[Dave2002]

re Gurneys # 44 , I wore my sheepskin coat to my one court appearance,and got an absolute discharge,so make of that what you will.

Legal experts will however tell you that an absolute discharge is not the same as not guilty, a fact of which I was in ignorance for about 30 years,thinking myself to be entirely innocent of the charge.

So what is an absolute discharge? Can feelings of uncertainty about guilt come back to haunt you?

[teamsaint]

So what is an absolute discharge? Can feelings of uncertainty about guilt come back to haunt you?

I Can say with certainty that they can Dave. it is probably part of the magistrates fun,letting the feelins of legal guilt lie there dormant for decades,only to reappear at moments of weakness.....

An absolute discharge is the lowest level of guilt, and rather poorly expressed IMO.
Let this be a warning to those considering playing fast and loose with the residents temporary Parking permit system in Southampton.......
( I don't think they felt it right to throw the book at me, since I had to explain the rules to the magistrates....)

[Dave2002]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discharge_(sentence)

[P. G. Tipps]

Why is this thread all about men and suits?

You missed out the 'grey, middle-aged' bit ...

[jean]

Oh yes, and elderly. I forgot them too.

[Beef Oven!]

Why is this thread all about men and suits?

Because more men go to operas than girls do, I suppose.

[Flosshilde]

Why is this thread all about men and suits?

Probably because a man (I think) started it, and the responses addressed his dilemma?

[Beef Oven!]

Probably because a man (I think) started it, and the responses addressed his dilemma?

Men (in the old fashion sense) don't have dilemmas.

[Flosshilde]

They did - they just didn't know it.

[Beef Oven!]

They did - they just didn't know it.

You wish

[P. G. Tipps]

Men (in the old fashion sense) don't have dilemmas.

Quite ...

And in the old days they didn't hug each other or have Nivea for Men

However, they did wear suits everywhere, even in the terracing mud at Edgeley Park.

[french frank]

Why is this thread all about men and suits?

I imagined it was because 'most women' had a reasonable range of outfits - all of which would be perfectly acceptable: jeans at one end and full evening dress at the other would be the extremes. For men (apparently), suits or not suits is a first consideration, never mind jeans or evening dress.

Since travelling in Europe always meant, for me, rucksack and jeans, the dilemma would only have been 'to go or not to go'. I went, I wore my jeans, I sat in the back row of the stalls (Basel), the slips (Budapest), a box (La Fenice), the little gallery beside the organ (Vienna) &c.

Why not, 'It depends how expensive the seat is'?