It seems that the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP) took the strange decision of prohibiting (or advising against) the use of flip-flops, shorts and t-shirts in the campus. For me, who studied and lived abroad, this decision is just stupid, and makes no sense. In the US, even law firms, one of the most traditional places I know, have a “causal” dress code and flip-flops are accepted in all Ivy-league universities and used by both teachers and students.
The use of flip-flops does not affect your ability to teach, work or learn nor shows lake of consideration for the university or your students/teachers. The UCP board is free to prohibit whatever they want as it is a private university attended only by those wishing to, but it is not the best way to increase the number of foreign students and researchers.
This decision just show how in Portugal, the way you dress is still soooooooo important…something I have only seen in “less developed” countries. This way, this country will never move on.
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