Ok, I'll try to keep this short and to the point...
I am attending a close family members wedding in the summer. It is abroad in a hot, non restrictive country that we visit regularly.
My side of the family, whilst fairly liberal still have some very backward views about how one should dress in front of "elders" amongst many other things.
The grooms side of the family are hugely old school and have extremely outdated views about such things - the grooms father hasn't spoken to his daughter in years because she married someone of a different race/colour. Quite frankly it sickens me.
I am neither religious nor particularly ingrained in the culture as I don't have much time for the patriarchal, controlling bull peddled by my family and usually happily wear bikinis abroad with not even an eyebrow raised by my mother.
However, my mother is starting to make a big deal about me "parading around" dressed "inappropriately" ie daring to wear a bikini on the beach/round the pool infront of our older (male) members of the family.
I am a grown woman but I'm being made to feel like a child and that I should conform so as to not disappoint my mother or have her face the snidey remarks from her family members.
WWYD? Continue as you would on holiday in a country where there are no rules about how to dress/cover up or cave in and purchase swimsuits/heavier cover ups?