I truly believe that people act more civilized when they are dressed up. When you go around in sweatpants, flip-flops and even pajama bottoms all the time, you just become an uncivilized slob and you tend to act like one too.
I agree. The lack of public decorum is something I lament.
I used to love to put on a suit and tie, wife would get a nice dress, do her hair, put on some makeup, and we could eat at a classy restaurant with some ambiance.
Or go to church in something other than cutoffs and boat shoes.
I think this has an effect. Granted, my wife laughs at me because I won’t even go out in public if my plumb-line isn’t squared away, but...I wouldn’t wear damned pajamas around like some, and I most definitely wouldn’t wear my pants halfway down my ass with my stupid underwear sticking up.
Sometimes I feel like aliens have invaded this planet, and made sure they left the worst behind for us.
One of the last times I went out to dinner with both of my parents when they were alive back in the mid-nineties, we went to a nice restaurant in Newport, RI. I had to wear a jacket offered by the restaurant to get in because I had a collarless shirt.
That seems like antiquity now.
So true. I think we have talked about that previously. I still dress decent when I work from home, none of that shorts and t-shirts stuff for me. Dressing nicely, maintaining a good posture, and being well groomed are perquisites to going in public. Don't tell anyone this, it opens a lot of doors when traveling. In short, respect yourself and others will respect you.
Dress codes are racist. Ask any democrap.