Not sure what you mean by "typical" vacation garb since we see on the streets of Sosua such things as fat male tourists (probably German) with a beer belly, brief bathing suit, shirt unbuttoned, no shoes and fat women, old enough to know better, wearing brief bathing suits. Not many, it is true, but they are seen.
It amazes me how crumby some visitors look. I wonder if they dress the same at home. Sort of embarrases me too, since I am also a foreigner.
Dominicans do not walk around town in brief shorts, etc--neither male or female. Shorts are ok, but I suggest they be walking shorts and not short shorts. If you should visit a church, forget shorts and wear long pants if a man and "modest" clothing if a woman.
It is too cold many evenings for me to wear a tank top, but then my blood is thin. However, my sons and my brother and his family visited recently and they remarked on the coolness of the evening. I'd bring some regular short sleeve sport shirts for evening wear.
If you go out for the evening to a nice restaurant or for dancing, dress accordingly, not like you are going to a beach party.
I live in Sosua and haven't experienced any problems on the street at night with mosquitos.
The more like a tourist you look, the more the vendors will try to persuade you to buy something.
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