What I meant was that: if you are visiting a town in a foreign country, it would at least be polite to research beforehand how locals dress and what is considered rude, inappropriate or simply tasteless.
That said, all of these measures you describe are a bit much. There are a million ways to tell that somebody's a tourist, are you going to pretend you're there to raise VC?
Edit: Parent's editing their comments a lot so mine makes no sense now, but they linked to https://img.budgettravel.com/_facebookShare/tourists-in-spai... as an example of tourist attire.
People don't want to do laundry on their vacation. And unless you're rich and have porters lugging around massive luggage with carefully packed fashionable clothes, people are also space-constrained
So, they optimize for comfortable, quick-dry, wrinkle-free clothes so they can maximize exploration and energy.
That's......what you have to do when you are spending your limited vacation time to see the world.
Part of this is definitely a snobby european mindset. Europeans get 5-6 weeks of vacation a year, and burn 4 of those on August so they are used to LOONG consecutive getaways, and structure their lives accordingly.
The rest of the world (And I don't mean America, I mean the entire rest of the non-European world) doesn't have that luxury.
My relatives from Canada are constantly complaining how they have only 10 days of vacation per year yet every year entire family takes road trips that last 5-6 weeks. Every second year they come to visit Europe.
I'm not speaking for myself, I'm speaking for the vast majority of the world.
Do you seriously think that tourists from China, Japan, India, and the US have 5-6 weeks of vacation every year?
To be so blind to your own privilege...befuddling..
Also, this is a nice indicator as well... https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/china/ https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/japan/ https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/india/
compared to this: https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/croatia/