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Interesting that so many of the replies above show that you guys are wearing decent looking attire. Many of the men I know usually wear the very same outfit every day and it is not fashionable at all! At least none I know wear tank tops aka wife beaters.

My last 2 trips I packed light and bought clothes in Bangkok, usually I check out the stalls upstairs in MBK or at Chatuchak markets and generally find the shorts and shirts I want there.

After delays of 18 months due to covid, Bond is back. Its premiere was held last night in London with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in attendance. No, I haven't seen it, but the reviewers so far seem to give it huge plaudits and 5 stars. The Guardian review starts - Craig’s final film as the diva of British intelligence is an epic barnstormer, delivering pathos, action, drama, camp comedy (Bond will call M “darling” in moments of tetchiness), heartbreak, macabre horror, and outrageously silly old-fashioned action in a movie which calls to mind the world of Dr No on his island. Director Cary Fukunaga delivers it with terrific panache, and the film also shows us a romantic Bond, an uxorious Bond, a Bond who is unafraid of showing his feelings, like the old softie he’s turned out to be. The BBC reviewer writes - No Time To Die does exactly what it was intended to do, which is to round off the Craig era with tremendous ambition and aplomb. Variety writes - “No Time to Die” is a terrific movie: an up-to-the-minute, down-to-the-wire James Bond thriller with a satisfying neo-classical edge. It’s an unabashedly conventional Bond film that’s been made with high finesse and just the right touch of soul, as well as enough sleek surprise to keep you on edge. Only CNN so far is less enthusiastic particularly critical of its 2'43" length.

another part of the 7 project. Looks very melodramatic

More good news! Keep them coming. Moonlight also created a new twitter account. No opening announcement yet but at least it indicates that they are still alive

There's a rumor making the rounds that international tourists will be required to spend their first week in a hotel approved by the government. That's seemingly to facilitate testing, at least in phase one of the plan. I'm sure more "illuminating" details are yet to come.

I'm not. Even my own country which I consider very sensible is not short of idiocies and contradictions when comes to covid rules so I don't expect anything from any country , I just watch development ready to jump when I feel it will make sense. Only problem is , at one point me and not only me may actually lose interest or switch it somewhere else, Colombia for example, LOL although I prefer to travel to countries when I can walk at 3 am free of worries , wouldn't recommend it in Cali or Medellin.

Don't hold your breath everything is still unstable and uncertain . Anyway my next trip once the apademic madness is over will be first time in Colombia and not Thailand I just saw so many attractive Colombian boys in Chaturbate so decided to give it a try.

The *top* sauna garotos are earning $1000 - $2000 USD a month. This is also what the sugar daddy “namorado” / “patrocinadores” are paying to get them “off the pole” and keep them away from other clients / out of the sauna work into an exclusive. $1000 USD a month for a sauna garoto woukd be made if he goes to the sauna twice a week and nets 500 reais each trip (so, 3-4 30-minute programas and/or some offsite meetings. Doable for some, but not fir all). $2000 USD a month, you’re doubling that output. I’m not pulling these numbers out of my ass. I’m giving you reala-time information from actual current cases in Rio and São Paulo. Of course, this is a profession with a short window of a few years, so the hottest guys have maybe a 3-4 year shelf life.

Please, please, not vests! I was having a beer in Panorama. A couple of tables away was an elderly gentleman in a white vest with his Thai companion....heaven knows what my mother would have said. I thought it absolutely appropriate that he was drinking beer (the large Singha or Leo, whatever) while the Thai had a glass of water. But that's my prejudice showing. Apologies; my Britishness is showing again. A km away, in Soi Bukheaw (sp), he could have bought a T-shirt for less than 100 bht. Less than the cost of his beer. This was over a decade ago. It's probably not to my credit that it has stayed in my memory.

Nonsense! we are all irresistible, whatever we look like, whatever we wear. Or so I've been told.

Day-wear I love baggy linen shirts, nice and cool and the local laundries usually do a good job with them. Evening-wear I prefer a fairly heavy, freshly ironed, cotton shirt; just looks that little bit smarter. I have noticed that most of my Thai friends will also put on a posher shirt if they are being taken out for the evening. Usually long trousers; even I find it hard to take myself seriously in shorts - its not my best look haha. On the beach maybe shorts but ......

I try to pack light to leave plenty of room for shopping when i travel, no better place to shop for the climate of your destination than when you're there. That said, I live in a hot humid climate already so my casual clothes don't really change too much between home and holiday. Shorts and tee during the day, shorts or jeans and a short sleeve button down shirt at night.

Speaking of clothes... Things have certainly changed. On my first visit in 1995, my memory is that, in Boyztown, falang gentlemen (sic) made an effort to dress more formally in the evenings. I mean by that long trousers, usually not jeans, and shirts with collars, not T-shirts. I certainly did but "dressing for dinner" had always part of my holiday experience. In the Caribbean, which was my chosen destination before Thailand, hotels wouldn't serve dinner to guests in shorts and some places even demanded a jacket. it took a few years for me to adapt to the more informal (and infinitely more sensible) fashions of today. And P too, though I expect some of you will be surprised by that. Like me, he wore shorts in the daytime but for the evenings he changed to long trousers. He is as old-fashioned in a Thai way as I am in my British habits! And then , one evening, on the way to Central from Jomtien we both noted that we were the only men in a crowded bus not in shorts. A revelation indeed! Now, my up-bringing is out the window and I wear shorts and a polo shirt to dinner. Just as P does. And it feels so much more comfortable.

I have been all-in on linen for a long time, shirts and trousers. No shorts, I am not big on sunburned calves or shins. Any falang wearing shorts is not me. Linen is very comfortable in a hot climate and looks good. I don’t mind the wrinkled look and I have the hotel or a local laundry do my laundry so I am not looking for drip-dry. Every so often I get a tailor in Singapore/India/Thailand to run up a few new shirts and trousers. Linen wears well. I am still wearing things that are over ten years old and none-the-worse for wear. The shirts I have made in both button-down collar and collarless. Always long sleeved against the sun, although I often roll the sleeves up a little way as I do not like stuff around my wrists. I do the same with business shirts, I have never seen the point in French cuffs or cufflinks. When I wear a collarless shirt I also wear a cotton/linen/silk scarf knotted around my neck to keep the sun off. The trousers I have made either with pleats and cuffs and with a roomy leg or as a simple elastic and draw-string waist, baggy and formless except a taper toward the cuff. The first type I can wear with a jacket (linen also) if I need to, the second type are totally informal and are useful to pull over swim shorts. Everything is in some variation of white/cream/beige/olive/blue with the exception of some of the collarless shirts in bright stripes and one pair of strawberry crush draw-string trousers. I rather like the strawberry crush draw-strings but they get the constipated look from Bangkok Guy and then the mischief. “Nice pants (unspoken 'for lady'). Today I am man?” I also always take a sun hat, either a panama or an old cotton safari one.

The best shorts I found are Izod and Chaps Golf Shorts. They are synthetic and stretchable and have six pockets. Similar to cargo shorts but the "cargo pockets" are not the usual baggy type. Rather they have zippered pockets and are in the interior rather than exterior thus giving a neat appearance. About $30 USD. I usually wear golf type polo shirts that I buy from Thrift Shops for $3 or $4 USD. Great value and quality compared to the usual polos found in department shops.

I also like to travel light this is is what I'm wearing when travelling to tropic. Shirt ( I have 7 different colors but the same fashion, all purchased for 300-400 baht on Silom , Pattaya Noght Market or Talat Bobae along Saen Saep canal ) has 2 velcroed pockets ( velcro is great theft prevention tool ) I always take 3 one them , one is on me , one is drying and one ready to use dried already shorts ( only 5 different colors, the same price and source ), 4 velcroed and 2 regular pockets at front and 2 velcroed on the back. I take only one Always do my own laundry and no problem with either one to dry overnight. In case if does not or in need of more formal dress ( no shorts at Grand Palace or Bank of Thailand Museum at Rama VIII bridge for example ) I use long trousers I wear on the flight . I have whole science as to what is distributed to which pocket but that's different story.