Originally Posted by
gfunkdave
Even though it's hot nobody wears shorts. They think it looks like you're walking around in your underwear. I figured, I don't care because it's 90+ degrees out, so I wanted to be comfortable.
I mostly skip wearing shorts in India. Loose, light trousers — even local stuff — is far more suitable than shorts for me because of the pollution and dirt/dust, the potential strength of the sun (if smog isn’t that bad on a day), and the looks gotten for wearing “underwear” (which is even the same word as for “shorts” in a few of the Indian languages).