The younger crowd wear a lot of shorts and short skirts as well as calzas (tights?) that sometimes leave little to the imagination. Crop top shirts, translucent shirts, loose t-shirts (bras hanging out in plain sight through the arm hole or even the neck), etc.
You could probably wear just about anything here and feel comfortable because someone is probably wearing it.
My girls almost all wear platform shoes because of the broken, uneven sidewalks, but they also wear heels sometimes, particularly when going out, even if it involves walking over uneven paving and climbing in and out of buses.
It's been my experience, and those of my wife and our girls, that men here will hoot and whistle at any reasonably good-looking woman, no matter what they're wearing. Doesn't even seem to matter much if the woman is with someone - I've walked arm-in-arm with my wife crossing 9 de julio and had a taxi driver stopped at Santa Fe literally hanging out of his car window, honking his horn and decrying how lovely my wife was. She was wearing modest shorts (i.e., no cheeks hanging out) and a modest blouse. My oldest sister-in-law that lives with us almost stopped going out for a run in the afternoons, even in cold weather and dressed in loose sweats, because she was propositioned by one after another guy running there too...
I was walking down Santa Fe on the Retiro side of 9 de julio and watched a street guy (late teens/early twenties) come up to an older woman (probably in her 50s, slender and good-looking, dressed in a pant-suit outfit - they were both approaching me and my oldest sister-in-law) put his arm across her shoulders and start trying to kiss her cheek. I stopped them and told the guy to get lost and my sister-in-law almost had a fit that I was getting involved...then had another woman come up to us afterwards and say I was crazy for trying to get involved!
Catcalls are tolerated here by everyone, even though they don't like it - my wife is about the only woman I've seen here telling guys off when they go too far across the line...just be prepared.
You could probably wear just about anything here and feel comfortable because someone is probably wearing it.
My girls almost all wear platform shoes because of the broken, uneven sidewalks, but they also wear heels sometimes, particularly when going out, even if it involves walking over uneven paving and climbing in and out of buses.
It's been my experience, and those of my wife and our girls, that men here will hoot and whistle at any reasonably good-looking woman, no matter what they're wearing. Doesn't even seem to matter much if the woman is with someone - I've walked arm-in-arm with my wife crossing 9 de julio and had a taxi driver stopped at Santa Fe literally hanging out of his car window, honking his horn and decrying how lovely my wife was. She was wearing modest shorts (i.e., no cheeks hanging out) and a modest blouse. My oldest sister-in-law that lives with us almost stopped going out for a run in the afternoons, even in cold weather and dressed in loose sweats, because she was propositioned by one after another guy running there too...
I was walking down Santa Fe on the Retiro side of 9 de julio and watched a street guy (late teens/early twenties) come up to an older woman (probably in her 50s, slender and good-looking, dressed in a pant-suit outfit - they were both approaching me and my oldest sister-in-law) put his arm across her shoulders and start trying to kiss her cheek. I stopped them and told the guy to get lost and my sister-in-law almost had a fit that I was getting involved...then had another woman come up to us afterwards and say I was crazy for trying to get involved!
Catcalls are tolerated here by everyone, even though they don't like it - my wife is about the only woman I've seen here telling guys off when they go too far across the line...just be prepared.
i dont want to stand out too much from the locals.
