Main dining room attire

[Scott Wooten]

Is it ok to wear dress shorts into the main dining room for dinner? Or do I need to wear dress casual pants?

 

[Ampurp85]

My personal opinion is as long as "naughty" bits are covered, wear what you want. Casual and dress shorts are definitely okay. 

[Atlantix2000]

7 minutes ago, Scott Wooten said:

Is it ok to wear dress shorts into the main dining room for dinner? Or do I need to wear dress casual pants?

There will be plenty of people in non-dress shorts.  The only hard rule is no swimsuits.

[OCSC Mike]

As mentioned, shorts are perfectly fine.

FWIW, my not-dressy-at-all shorts and a casual polo easily put me above the 50th percentile as far as "dressiness" on casual nights in the MDR on Wonder last week. Plenty of t-shirts to be found... and some sports jerseys.

[smokeybandit]

You'll see people in gym shorts and a t-shirt in the MDR every night.

[CanHardlyWait]

43 minutes ago, Scott Wooten said:

Is it ok to wear dress shorts into the main dining room for dinner? Or do I need to wear dress casual pants?

 

Yes.

[loki007]

my rule is never wear pants, those are for work. Shorts are for cruising 

[mbr1978]

My husband wore khaki shorts and a collared shirt in the MDR. Not a word was said about his shorts. (Last month on Symphony) 

[baltodave]

We just got off Odyssey and men were almost anything.  Even on formal night, I saw one dude with t-shirt, gym shorts and flip flops.  However, most guys wore polo shirts or dress shirts.

I sort of wish they enforced long pants on guys on formal/dress-to-impress nights.

[JLMoran]

A reason I can think of to wear longer / dressier shorts is if you don't like the cold. I find the MDR to be chilly most nights, so I'm always wearing a pair of chinos (my daily casual pant) and a button-down shirt or polo. I think if I wore shorts of any kind, the waiters would be bringing me blankets from the all-over goose bumps and chattering teeth!

[CynBeth]

On our Med cruise in July most people were very casual.  

[Fastfaller]

I have always dressed nice for the MDR, but this next cruise I think I am going to be more relaxed about it, everyone else is. I probably still won't wear shorts but I am not going to feel obligated to wear a dress shirt. Maybe a polo, maybe a Hawaiian shirt... Whichever I am comfortable in.