It used to be just St. Peter’s, but now the dress code has expanded to the entire city.
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TOURISTS in skimpy summer clothing were being told to cover up before entering Vatican City today. 
The ban had previously applied only to St Peter’s Basilica but guards manning the official entry point into the tiny, walled state begun pulling visitors aside overnight for sporting “inappropriate” attire, Italian news agency ANSA reported.
The new decree, particularly targeting those in shorts and shoulder-revealing shirts, sent several tourists trudging off to local stores to buy shawls, scarves and pairs of trousers.
Immodest clothing has been specifically barred from St Peter’s for decades and Vatican officials are seemingly sick of visitors flouting the dress-code.
However, locals just nipping inside the Vatican City walls to use its pharmacy, post office and store were particularity bewildered by the clothing crackdown.
Most are accustomed to treating the Vatican like any other part of Rome, ANSA said.
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I wonder if women are required to have their heads covered inside St. Peter’s? Scarves are mentioned in the article … but no head covering is indicated on the “sign.”
I contacted a friend that lives there, and they said the head covering rule isn’t stressed. Maybe that’s next…?
Heidi, You have a point I’m surprised no one brought up, especially since 1 Cor. 11:4-15 and Canon Law drive that very point home. Also, they, in accordance to Dt. 22:5 ought to mandate females wear skirts and dresses; pants on females are against God’s Law.
Hard to imagine, though, that tourists were scurrying to BUY things, not just change, as in, they didn’t have ANYTHING appropriate in their luggage. Very sad.
It may be true, but it could also be that they found it more convenient to buy something than to go all they way back to their hotel for a change of clothes.
Good point, Barb.