Colombia

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 prostitutes, 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?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Youtube>City walk bogota

    You're welcome

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      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.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Lol nobody would wear guayabera en bogota.

      Dress in bogota as you would dress in London. Simple as that. Same shitty weather.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >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.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I like it about 75F and sunny with about 50% humidity and occasional rain if you're asking.

          Medellin has this climate.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Ah fair enough anon, I actually prefer it on the cooler side because I move a lot but I Memellin is kinda nice too.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Really? Then why is the high tomorrow 82? Medellin hasn’t had regular 75 degree weather for about twenty or thirty years now.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Yeah I just looked, 28 degrees give or take a degree basically all year round.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              82 is still fine. I don't really get uncomfortable until it gets into the 90s. Medillin still gets cool at night.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        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 moron, don't ever do that.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Cheers.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Blend in as what?

    Shorts are too cold for
    Bogota though even gringos would not be that dumb.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >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 prostitutes 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.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        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.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      upper midwest Americans (and Canadians) will wear shorts if its above freezing

      Lol nobody would wear guayabera en bogota.

      Dress in bogota as you would dress in London. Simple as that. Same shitty weather.

      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.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >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.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      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

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >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.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Then people should have to walk or be forced to move to Europe where they have proper green transportation

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >it rains a lot. its not humid at all.
      are you high anon

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You're going to look like a moron 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.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >essay
      Chortled

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Puto. I came back to call you a homosexual. What. A homosexual like those bogotans. They all look and act like gays and es no chimba.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Try Gringo Tuesdays if you want to meet cute university students

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Would you be so kind as to tell us more about "Gringo Tuesdays"?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        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

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          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.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Why do people go to colombia when you can go to Venezuela for a tenth of the price?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Cumbrains

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Venezuela is a worse shithole why do you think they're so many of them here?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                There are*

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                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

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                This is as dumb as saying you will be the king of intelligence if you go to a school for morons.
                What the frick is the point when you are in fricking 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 fricking Thailand or something.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                > 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.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Obv never got venezolana pussy

                Anon got it right
                It is definitely the sweetest stuff on earth

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                > 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.

                Cumbrain opinion discarded

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Obv never got venezolana pussy

                Anon got it right
                It is definitely the sweetest stuff on earth

                Cool samegayging you monkey fricker

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