Dress code

[Poignard]

Gentlemen, please!

I know it's unbritishly warm but wandering around marinas topless is not seemly. I've seen enough manboobs, beer guts, hairy backs and builder's cleavages today to last me a lifetime.

Harrumph! No more than one might expect from mere boaters, sir. Bounders, cads and rotters the lot of them!

The proper British yachtsman would not, of course, be seen without a blazer and white duck trousers during the season, topped off with a yachting cap bearing the badge of the Royal Yacht Squadron (obtainable from Gieves & Hawkes for a trifling £25).

 

[Vallich]

I wholly agree. Bowness has acres of unseemly flesh wobbling, pinkly, about. It makes me want to throw up.

...and the men are even worse!

 

[TacXX]

Gentlemen, please!

I know it's unbritishly warm but wandering around marinas topless is not seemly. I've seen enough manboobs, beer guts, hairy backs and builder's cleavages today to last me a lifetime.

Probably you have just seen the *#?% germans again. ;-)

Greetings from GY,
Wolfgang

 

[Mudisox]

And a singlet, even if coloured, is also not particularly attractive. Often seen containing a large extended gut with a telephoto lens camera hanging like a strap on peenise, sometimes seen in lesbian porno films[or so I am told]

 

[Lakesailor]

a large extended gut with a telephoto lens camera , sometimes seen in lesbian porno films

Gosh. Standards are falling.

 

[scottie]

Nothing compares with the blue man suits as worn by various people of uncertain age and sex at the commonwealth flotilla this weekend

 

[Tidewaiter2]

Gosh. Standards are falling.

Fear not, during the Bembwidge Wegatta weekend just gone, despite the heat and humidity, One strode along the Duver in shorts, socks, wegatta shirt, Bombay Bowler, and swagger stick. It was a trifle inconvienent, passing out from heat stroke, having forgotten to pack my spine pad, khaki bush shirt and fly whisk, but One dismissed One's valet as soon as One returned to the North Island.
One's example encouraged several others to ask for One's hatters details-a return to the solar topee with white pugeree as Solent tropical weather kit is not long away, I think.
Yottin Keps with white covers, Pshaw, that won't stop sunstroke striking yer crew down, dontcha know!

 

[Zen Zero]

Don't look (if you don't like what you see).

 

[GrahamM376]

Don't look (if you don't like what you see).

Sometimes you can't help looking because you just can't believe what you're seeing.

 

[interloper]

You have to be careful about dress codes. A group from my high school was kicked out of a restaurant because they violated the "No shirt. No shoes. No service." rule. They returned the next day wearing shirts, shoes, and nothing else. The restaurant subsequently banned all students from the high school.

 

[Tidewaiter2]

I do find it odd that despite all the info re skin cancer, sunburn damage, etc, everything comes off with a bit of sun with we N. Europeans.

Natural fibre rich hats, shirts and shorts/zip offs that absorb yer sweat and then cool by it's evaporation are the best way of cooling off, not bare skin.

Then too, if fresh water is not a problem, turning the hose on yer clothes reduces the body temperature pdq by evap-that saved me from passing out at Rendesburg RVR, Nord Zee Kanal, last August on the way back from the Baltic.

Long hot, v humid day at the helm, then stress of mooring up in the box, I felt very giddy and even hotter suddenly.Probably couldn't sweat enough.
Safer than swimming in the fairly stagnant lake waters( deffo risk of Weils disease so near the banks and so much food scraps around).

 

[Hydrozoan]

... wandering around marinas topless is not seemly. I've seen enough manboobs, beer guts, hairy backs and builder's cleavages today to last me a lifetime.

In one of his books (on the boat, so I cannot give title, chapter and verse) Francis B Cooke recommmended a grey flannel suit as being the best sailing wear. But that advice notwithstanding, I was pleased to read that your desired lifetime quota of sightings has been met.

... topped off with a yachting cap ...

In the same book, Cooke said he gave up wearing a yachting cap when an elderly lady mistook him for a railway porter!

 

[RichardTaylor]

No comment required: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Men-039-s...var=550432885463&_trksid=p2056016.m2518.l4276

 

[Lakesailor]

How did the word "sexy" creep into that advert?

 

[lustyd]

The restaurant subsequently banned all students from the high school.

Surely they don't have the authority to ban students from the high school, and what would the school have done without students?

 

[2nd_apprentice]

No comment required: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Men-039-s...var=550432885463&_trksid=p2056016.m2518.l4276

Seems more popular than grey flannel suits or yachting caps though:

"More than 10 available / 111 sold"

 

[Debenair]

Wasn't it the late great Andy Ripley who responded to the management command to wear official tour kit to some dinner on the 1974 Lions tour to SA, and wore flip flops, ragged jeans, his tour blazer and tie, bit nothing else!