yeap,
it is a big difference if you talk about that in case of a city like st dgo or about a more rural area or like in my case a beach area.
the usual behaviors vary on such.
for my dominican wife, her sisters, dominican neighbours aso aso within the pueblo it is usual to wear shorts and 90% wear flipflops in the near area around the house, including a walk to the colmado, and sure on the beach of course.
it is different when leaving the "near the house area", like driving a few minutes up the road to the bigger supermarket, for that my wife would never go in shorts or simple flipflops, for such the usual female 20 minutes 'change' is appropriate, ha ha.
when living in the City i could not imagine that my wife would leave the house in shorts/flipflops or such.
those things are only used within the 'private sphere', like in the house/garden/beach in front of the house/walk around the corner to the colmado(only if it is AT HOME at the Colmado around the corner).
Mike
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