Each culture has its own dress code

BY Staff
Published: November 11, 2008 in Letters

Dear Editor,
Is there an anti-tourism organisation in our country? I ask this because I saw an article in the press from a female writer complaining about how the Brazilian women coming to Guyana dress in revealing clothes, which is not the norm in our society. Poor girl, should we not make a collection and send this writer to Miami Beach, Cancun or such places to see how people dress.

Maybe she should also go to Palestine or a Far East country where women have to be covered from ankle to head. Each culture has it own dress code.
Yours faithfully,
Victor Fitt

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decanadianCarlVeecock says:

November 11, 2008 at 6:58 pm

So what?

They have it, let them flaint it!

Remember…see am, no tek am
tek am, no dun am!

As youngsters we had a hay-day at the gawkers and riled them.

Now Victor, you from my generation, so cool it brother.

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ANNA D says:

November 11, 2008 at 8:15 pm

AS someone born in Guyana sixty five years ago. I must say that many people

who have visited Guyana have commented on how well the women and men

dress. as compared to the US. Please do not loose your dress code in the

name of tourism. That is all the this beautiful country has left t to feel proud of

and admired by other cultures outside Guyana.

Be proud of your young women and men in the way they dress

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Caesar Agustus says:

November 11, 2008 at 8:53 pm

See between the lines. Local women feel threatened by the more shapely foreign women. The Brazilians, Colombians etc. In fact, Guyanese men are absolutely smitten by these chics.And, some local girls feel sidelined.

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Get Real says:

November 11, 2008 at 9:32 pm

Anna-D I totally agree with you, let our men and women respect themselves and keep up the standard that we are accustomed to.

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Caesar Agustus says:

November 12, 2008 at 8:37 am

You stand corrected on one however. Some cultures have no dress code. Nudists.

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- buxton_man says:
  
  November 12, 2008 at 1:00 pm
  
  I have to correct you on that one Caesar. Nudists do have a dress code…. Birthday suits!!!
Ane says:

November 12, 2008 at 9:11 am

I too think that the local women feel threathened by the foreigners. A lot of Guyanese women dress in revealing clothes too.

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- Caesar Agustus says:
  
  November 13, 2008 at 8:13 pm
  
  I feel that the Guyanese women are jealous,because they cannot compete with the more attractive and shapely foreign women.
BIG D, says:

November 12, 2008 at 9:17 am

See am,na tek am,tek am na dun am,and when you finish wid am,Cover am.What you think of that Victor?.

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Ulric says:

November 12, 2008 at 10:33 am

I am happy that foreigners are providing Guyanese women and men with an eye-full. After all there is nothing pleasant to look at in Georgetown that is solely Guyanese. I was in Georgetown sometime ago and wore short pants on shopping trips. On several ocassions, I was asked “wah a big man like you ah wear short pants fah?” Get Real what standards are you talking about? ISNM

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bgsbny says:

November 12, 2008 at 12:04 pm

……most of our neighbours come from both of the two most closest to the equator in brazil ,, manaus and boa vista ,, so scanty dress is a way of beating the heat ,,, especially ,, by the ladies who have what is “admired ” by MEN !,,,,,

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Caesar Agustus says:

November 13, 2008 at 11:09 pm

Now what is the Guyana culture? And what is it’s dress code? First question, Guyana has no set culture. Second question.When I left Guyana in the seventies,the dress code for young men was anything but an exercise in lunacy. Clarks and tight shirt hung out over crimplene pants. The pants length bought for $10 from a guy leaning up against Fogartys.Considerd the height of fashion it was basically a ghetto form of dress. The shirtjac. Referred to as a shirt and a jacket. Now how the hell can this lie be true is incredible. All you had here was a frickin square bottomed shirt with four pockets.Then you had the communist Chinese tunic worn by the llegal government ministers and its illegal president. Pravda and Granma in hand, strutting about like clowns,they all looked like a bunch of trolls going down the street.

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Caesar Agustus says:

November 12, 2008 at 7:24 pm

Aha,I see. Good,well,are you saying that while driving along Vigilance public road, travellers might just see Buxtonians in ahem,pardon me,birthday suits casually going about their daily chores? Hanging loose.Well,I’ll be d…I did not know Guyana had a nudist colony there. I mean one outside.Lombard Street is the only enclosed nudist colony in Guyana as far as I know.Where everyone in the buildings upstairs usually cannot keep on any of their clothing.

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