Originally Posted by
azepine00
In about 20 or so meals out in Italy past july, only once I was asked to wear long pants. It is hard not to wear shorts when it's 30-35 oC outside so I was hardly alone. Casual places with tables both inside and outside are certainly OK with shorts, very formal restaurants are likely to have a problem with them. Even in churches knee-long shorts were OK.
For those who want to look like locals by not wearing shorts - who are you trying to kid? You are tourists and you will look like tourists - shorts or not. My sunglasses were a dead giveaway - guys overthere wear "top gun" "back from the 80s" kind this summer.
Not all tourists are ignorants. The question is, is it necessary to ignore that it is not normal to do so in italy? I don't think so. And in the churches ten years ago, for example milan duomo, you have to stay out in shorts. Now you can go in.