Blue Jean Question

[gettingmarried]

I have been reading a bit about the issue of jeans onboard. Are they absolutely forbidden everywhere or just at dinner?

[eh2zed]

I have been reading a bit about the issue of jeans onboard. Are they absolutely forbidden everywhere or just at dinner?

Blue jeans are common on cruise ships but just not at dinner although a few lines including NCL are now allowing them at dinner as well.

[GORDONCHICK]

It looks like you're going to the Caribbean in November, and it will still be very warm. While jeans are okay on board (except in the dining room on most lines), they are quite warm and heavy to pack. You may want to rethink and go with a lighter weighted fabric.

[Quilting_Cruiser]

Other than our summer cruises (unless they're to Alaska) we take our jeans. We don't wear them in the dining room, but elsewhere is just fine.

 

Have a great cruise!

Jayne

[Cotton]

You will find that, in the tropics, denim is entirely too HOT to wear....as well as being totally inappropriate for a formal dining room atmosphere.

[Sandytoes]

Why are jeans such an issue....?...:rolleyes:

 

Leave them home....period... Or just pack a pair just incase...

[madelinerose]

Jeans, if they're forbidden at all, would only be forbidden in the dining room or specialty restaurants during dinner.

 

I leave my jeans at home, then there's no question or second guessing. ;)

[newmexicoNita]

DH and I were talking about this a couple of days ago, as hot as the Caribbean and Mexico can be, why would anyone want to wear jeans? Of course all we saw and the county fair this past weekend were jeans and it was very hot. I guess we are a little strange. We were jeans in the winter, come mid April til early Oct they are places in a drawer and forgotten. That being said, NCL now allows jeans in good condition at dinner and HAL will allow them on casual nights, usually the first and last night of the cruise. I think the printing is on the wall, all lines will soon buckle under pressure and jeans will be accepted at dinner.

 

Nita

[GORDONCHICK]

NCL now allows jeans in good condition at dinner

 

I thought this changed very recently???

[MsMinx]

I find this an interesting thread as jeans are pretty much the 'norm' on the Australian ships. I always take mine for days / nights when the weather is a bit cooler (i'm a bit of a frog and feel the cold). I don't wear them on shore though as it's usually too hot.

 

Jeans are also widely accepted in our dining rooms. While they're not really considered 'acceptable' for formal nights, a handful of people still wear them and are never turned away. Shorts are never acceptable at dinner in our dining rooms though, and I think that's fair enough.

[dyslexic pirate]

Take a pair of comfy jeans!! You will need them if you plan to walk the deck early morning or late evening. It is always chilly, especially if you will be out at sea and not in port.

 

I've worn jeans in the dining room (not formal night) and I've seen my DH get turned away for wearing denim on a different cruise. It's a toss up anymore. Since designer jeans are soooo much more expensive than dress slacks/pants I think more cruise lines are accepting them now.

[bUU]

Someone is keeping a list of the mass market cruise lines and whether or not they now allow jeans in the dining room (on non-formal nights). I don't remember who it was, or I'd look for it for you. From what I remember, it is now about half and half.

[GORDONCHICK]

Since designer jeans are soooo much more expensive than dress slacks/pants I think more cruise lines are accepting them now.

 

I don't think price has anything to do with it. Denim is a very casual fabric, period.

[Mary Ellen]

Since designer jeans are soooo much more expensive than dress slacks/pants I think more cruise lines are accepting them now.

Unless someone is tacky enough to leave the price tag on, 99.9% of us would never know how much they cost. They are still jeans.

[bUU]

Denim is a very casual fabric, period.

That used to be a general rule, but is no longer. Times have changed. It isn't the fabric but rather how it is used.

[GORDONCHICK]

That used to be a general rule, but is no longer. Times have changed. It isn't the fabric but rather how it is used.

 

That's not true in the fashion world. That's also not to say that some don't wear denim to formal events (like award shows), but it's still casual.

[Amlee]

I am leaving tomorrow for my cruise and I'm taking jeans. I will not be wearing them to the dining room, but I will be wearing them around the ship and while ashore. Anyone that has a problem with it can pucker up and kiss my grits!

[newmexicoNita]

I thought this changed very recently???

It did, the allowing of jesns went into effect about a month ago.

 

Nita

[newmexicoNita]

I don't think price has anything to do with it. Denim is a very casual fabric, period.

you are right: I always giggle at those who bring up the subject of how expensive Jeans or any demin can be: this isn't the point.

 

Nita

[newmexicoNita]

I am leaving tomorrow for my cruise and I'm taking jeans. I will not be wearing them to the dining room, but I will be wearing them around the ship and while ashore. Anyone that has a problem with it can pucker up and kiss my grits!

Wow, don't get so excited; no one will have a problem with you wearing jeans, where did you get that idea? Most are talking about in the dining room for dinner, not anywhere else.

 

Nita

[Amlee]

Wow, don't get so excited; no one will have a problem with you wearing jeans, where did you get that idea? Most are talking about in the dining room for dinner, not anywhere else.

 

Nita

 

Oh, I was going by some past threads I have read concerning Celebrity. :eek: Talking about people not in dinner wear after 6pm, even though those non-dressed people weren't in the dinning room. Just walking around the ship. I've decided to take my jeans and not let it bother me!

[newmexicoNita]

Oh, I was going by some past threads I have read concerning Celebrity. :eek: Talking about people not in dinner wear after 6pm, even though those non-dressed people weren't in the dinning room. Just walking around the ship. I've decided to take my jeans and not let it bother me!

Good for you, this is one thing that has always bothered me: I can live with the formal dining, in some ways I rather like it, but to look down their noses if we choose to get comfortable on our vacation after dinner blows my mind. Now get out of here and have a great cruise.

 

Nita

[Amlee]

Thanks, reading those threads really had me worried. Jeans are packed, just waiting for my computer to run it's scan and then out of here!

[KLLund]

My jeans are going with me to the caribbean next week .. along with my new gowns .. my LBDs and pears .. and other fun dining stuff ... but I am more comfy in jeans in port than I am in Shorts .. and I look like hell in capris .. so the jeans go .. I just wear them where appropreate ..

[imnance]

and I look like hell in capris

 

Don't feel bad. Most people do. :D

 

Whatever fashonista decided that they should be fashionable should be shot!