"Formal" means tuxedo, and most people go to dinner wearing T-shirts. Yes, wearing a tuxedo while my neighbors are in t-shirts is a decidedly different experience than an entire dining room in formal attire.
What other people wear has never really changed my meal or other experience. But that’s what makes us all different.
I feel like you're not reading my posts completely. I'd be 100% okay with Disney eliminating formal night. I'd actually prefer it, as I don't like formal wear either, especially on a cruise when luggage space is at a premium. My problem isn't with the way people dress for dinner, it's the way Disney creates misleading expectations by SAYING they're doing a formal night, and then not.
And us 100%.
"Smart" and "cruise casual" are not mutually exclusive. I wear the same (very nice) silk shirts to the beach as I wear to dinner, outside of formal night.
DISboards is the only site I've ever been on where people talk about the different sub-forums as if they're entirely different boards. Most people don't navigate the site by drilling into a particular sub-forum, they just click "New Posts" and browse what seems interesting.
We just prefer to have a completely fresh change of more dressy clothes for each evening as opposed to anything that we have worn before or during the day. It’s just our family way. It’s exactly the same as we do at home or what we did whilst spending the day in the theme parks and then eating at the Californian Grill for example.
I meant the same type of shirts, not the same outfit from the day. Yes, we shower and change before dinner.
Yes I understood that, but the kind of thing we wear during the evening would not be appropriate for the beach as we take a variety of more dressy dresses for evenings which if I’m going in the ocean or lazing on the sands would not be suitable at all. The beach is shorts or flowy pants or something similar tops and swimwear and cover ups. Our dresses for the evening would be totally impractical.
