For men yes, incl India but not when I was in Morocco.

For women it's usually a quite different story, even nowadays.

And the originating post did mention a naked blonde one.

p.s. speaking of nowadays, there's somewhat of a role reversal when the 'natives' experience westerners frolicing on a beach!

From: Jerry Barrington <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: [TML] More Promethean Skies

True, but with respect to European attire of the time, local attire *was* nearly running around naked. And of course, how much so depended a great deal on the location.

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

Well, it doesn't necessarily mean, "running around naked". Take India for example. Or the areas of sub-saharan Africa where Islam is influential esp wrt female attire.

When my father was stationed at a remote SAC base in Morocco, most local women (some had 'gone european') left only their face/eyes & hands exposed when outside, no matter how hot it was & it got really, really hot sometimes. And what they covered up with was NOT light-weight!

IMO, "going native" referred more to adopting local customs/attire w/o necessarily 'stripping down'.

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