I’m going to Bogota at the end of September. I’ve seen several people claim that people expect you to dress nicely there, and that shorts will get you pegged as a tourist and easy mark for whores, robbers, grifters, etc.
I was going to buy a few pairs of slacks and a dress shirt, but I was watching some walkthroughs of the city on Youtube and it doesn’t seem like anyone dresses like that.
If I dress in slacks, a collared shirt, and some brown dress shoes will I blend in? If not, will the proportion and intensity of Colombianas after my gringo dick be worth the tradeoff of potentially getting stabbed to death over $5 in cash?
Youtube>City walk bogota
You're welcome
Just done it. I see the problem. The dude I was watching was in red light districts, the actual walk videos are all people dressed way nicer. Cheers, fellas.
Most urban latin american men from my observation seem to wear pants or jeans, a collared shirt or polo shirt and leather shoes. You could also buy a guayabera while you're there. Bogota btw has Seattle's weather despite being in the tropics so you won't see any people in shorts but you might see that in Cartagena.
Lol nobody would wear guayabera en bogota.
Dress in bogota as you would dress in London. Simple as that. Same shitty weather.
>Same.shitty weather
10-20C all year round with 50% humidity is shitty to you? Would you rather live in a humid 40C hellhole or a -30C frozen tundra?
I swear you people get triggered at the sight of two clouds and probably melt when it's drizzling.
I like it about 75F and sunny with about 50% humidity and occasional rain if you're asking.
Medellin has this climate.
Ah fair enough anon, I actually prefer it on the cooler side because I move a lot but I Memellin is kinda nice too.
Really? Then why is the high tomorrow 82? Medellin hasn’t had regular 75 degree weather for about twenty or thirty years now.
Yeah I just looked, 28 degrees give or take a degree basically all year round.
82 is still fine. I don't really get uncomfortable until it gets into the 90s. Medillin still gets cool at night.
That was what I saw. Most of them honestly looked poorly dressed, which surprised me because lots of people have told me about how important wearing pants was.
>Bogota btw has Seattle's weather despite being in the tropics so you won't see any people in shorts but you might see that in Cartagena.
Yeah I’ve heard. I’m from Vancouver though so it can’t get much worse.
Bogotano here, it's not so much about the quality of the clothes, it's about how much you show. A t-shirt, a pair of jeans and a light jacket for when it rains or gets windy is what I'd wear every day.
But yeah man you wear shorts here and you are immediately outed as the retard, don't ever do that.
Cheers.
Blend in as what?
Shorts are too cold for
Bogota though even gringos would not be that dumb.
>Blend in as what?
I just don’t want them to know I’m a gringo so I can avoid getting mugged or propositioned. The city walk video I watched had a half-dozen or so instances of whores just approaching over-the-hill boomers and while I like to think I’m smarter than the average bear my dick is not and I would probably get my wallet nicked.
If you are in those areas you are never going to look like a local. No matter how you dress they will spot you from a mile away. If that’s what you’re afraid of stay away from those areas or learn to deal with it. Why would you be hanging around there at night anyway? Everything you want to do around there is daylight kind of stuff. In the evening you shouldn’t really go below chapinero if you’re the type to worry.
upper midwest Americans (and Canadians) will wear shorts if its above freezing
I've worn shorts in London on nicer days because the British don't talk to you and I don't care what they think anyway, but in latam I try to blend in.
>upper midwest Americans (and Canadians) will wear shorts if its above freezing
Sometimes even my gaunch if I’m in the backyard, but only outside, it’s weird. My parents put A/C in this summer and I’ve been in my winter clothes since June.
This is the truth. In their winter it was cold enough I was comfy in ned under giant comforter in hostel. Medellin is also good weather for pants. If you visit the coast then its weather for shorts
medellin doesnt feel 82 because it rains a lot. its not humid at all. thats why its considered spring weather year round. you still need ac inside because it gets stiffy
It’s called that because they gave it the nickname more than a hundred years ago when the weather actually was always springlike because hardly anybody lived there. But it passed that point long ago. It’s called the urban heat island effect. And every year it gets worse especially since they don’t do a damn about all those diesel buses and millions of taxis.
Thy could easily mandate all public transport including taxis be electric and solve half the problem right there at least for air pollution. All the new construction and population growth still means it’ll get hotter and hotter.
>Thy could easily mandate all public transport including taxis be electric and solve half the problem right there at least for air pollution.
I really doubt they have the infrastructure for that, much less the money to replace the fleet in a timely manner.
Then people should have to walk or be forced to move to Europe where they have proper green transportation
>it rains a lot. its not humid at all.
are you high anon
You're going to look like a retard and an awkward jerky idiot either way. Me and my rateros will spot you a block away. You better be watching you six, essay. One false move or show of fear and we move in. Don't even think of coming down to Sante Fe or staying in the Sante Fe Motel with my venezuelan drug dealers and brothels outside. I got so many putas it would make your head spin.
>essay
Chortled
Puto. I came back to call you a gay. What. A gay like those bogotans. They all look and act like fags and es no chimba.
Try Gringo Tuesdays if you want to meet cute university students
Would you be so kind as to tell us more about "Gringo Tuesdays"?
It's a language exchange night where university aged local chicas attempt to practice speaking English with native speakers. I met some real cuties that way. It's in Bogotá and I think Medellin as well
Neat. I'm thinking of going (have to go SOMEWHERE in LatAm to do medical stuff this winter), this definitely ups my interest in Colombia.
If you know Barfcom, there was a great thread on there (that the mods deleted) by some guy who regularly went to Colombia to get laid. He was 50-ish and roughly spherical or at least ovoid. He had no problem picking up hot 20-ish chicas.
Why do people go to colombia when you can go to Venezuela for a tenth of the price?
Cumbrains
Venezuela is a worse shithole why do you think they're so many of them here?
There are*
It’s only a shithole if you don’t have euros or dollars. If you do have a few dollars you can live like a god emperor. We’re talking Caligula level débauchery
This is as dumb as saying you will be the king of intelligence if you go to a school for retards.
What the fuck is the point when you are in fucking Venezuela? A bunch of ugly troll faced South American monkeys with baboon asses, high crime levels, shit ass food and 7 hours in a car to get literally anywhere in the country? Muh epic cocainerino? I don't understand you people, if you want debauchery go to fucking Thailand or something.
> troll faced South American monkeys with baboon asses
Obv never got venezolana pussy. They are some of the hottest women on earth. Crazy ass wide hips small waisted big breasts with cute faces. Only competition they have is colombia and the eastern europe women who tend to have less curves anyways.
>Obv never got venezolana pussy
Anon got it right
It is definitely the sweetest stuff on earth
Cumbrain opinion discarded
Cool samefagging you monkey fucker