Clothing crackdown in Vatican
Travel news: Vatican tells tourists to cover up
Tourists in skimpy summer clothing were being told to cover up before entering Vatican City today.
The ban had previously applied only to St Peter's Basilica but guards manning the official entry point into the tiny, walled state begun pulling visitors aside overnight for sporting "inappropriate" attire, Italian news agency ANSA reported.
The new decree, particularly targeting those in shorts and shoulder-revealing shirts, sent several tourists trudging off to local stores to buy shawls, scarves and pairs of trousers.
Immodest clothing has been specifically barred from St Peter's for decades and Vatican officials are seemingly sick of visitors flouting the dress-code.
However, locals just nipping inside the Vatican City walls to use its pharmacy, post office and store were particularity bewildered by the clothing crackdown.
Most are accustomed to treating the Vatican like any other part of Rome, ANSA said.
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I fully agree with the Vatican city. There sghould be proper dress code. We are Christians but if we go to places where we visit the mosque in brunei, adu dhabi etc, we have to respect their dress code and wear the abaya.
Same with the holy land.We cannot wear skimpy stuff when we visit the temples, churches etc.
People should be mindful of the dress codes. Churches should be accorded the respect as places of worship.
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