My grandpa would walk to the pool in the efficiency units we rented in the summers up in the Italian Catskills. Always dressed to the nines summer or winter you wouldn’t catch him in a bathing suit.
“Is the water wet” he would ask in his Neapolitan accent.
In the movies that portray Italians, I often see them wearing black, mostly the adult ones. Is that true, that wearing black throughout the year is popular with many Italian adults?