Are we dressing to the lowest common denominator?

1819 News ^ | October 8, 2025 | Annie Holmquist

[Nervous Tick]

>> know what I mean?
Egg-zackly! 👍🏻

[T.B. Yoits]

[yuleeyahoo]

Most people who actually attend church these days dress for whatever activity they doing directly after services. If going to the big game, they wear their team regalia.

It’s depressing.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

On the other hand, sometimes I dress down to test hearts.

You perceive yourself as above other people with the authority to "test their hearts".

So basically you are a liberal jerk.

[jeffc]

I would assume the rich dress down (for them) so as not to appear wealthy to any potential muggers....

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

That’s the “fashion statement” that I just cannot comprehend. Worn by the affluent, it seems like a guilty apology or something.

Povertycore.

You are so rich you can afford to pay a thousand dollars for clothes that are ripped and torn.

It is mildly amusing in clothing.

[NorthMountain]

The largest falsehoods you were ever told were from a man in a suit.

Dunno ... I've heard some real whoppers from women in pantsuits. One in particular ... IYGWIM.

But the point remains. Clothes do NOT make the man. Manners might. Conduct definitely does.

To "all":

If you think dressing "well" (whatever that means) is important, then dress "well". You'll set an example. The way you conduct yourself when dressed "well" will determine what sort of example you're setting.

[NorthMountain]

You know who even hired the designer Hugo Boss to make them look "better"?

The New Jersey State Police?

[DouglasKC]

Depending on the church you attend it’s up to you or me to set the standard. As a pastor I wear a suit and tie. There’s no dress code but the power of example is tremendous. We have new people show up and start attending and if they start changing their clothing habits I can tell God is working with them to change other aspects of their life as well.

[Vaduz]

Can be seen in any California super market of gas station.

[NorthMountain]

“Don’t ever appear in my courtroom like that again!”

Hey judge! It's not your courtroom. It's OURS. It belongs to We the People who paid for it and whom you serve. Have some respect for your masters, "judge".

[Disambiguator]

That reminds me of a joke I once heard, but I’ll get in trouble if I repeat it here.

[Disambiguator]

You pay extra for clothes that are already worn out.

Brilliant!

[kosciusko51]

I see what you did there.

[Mr. Blond]

Went to an AoG church in Spokane, half of them were wearing Seahawks jerseys. Talk about idolatry.

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

The team regalia at my former church has become so bad I want to renounce my United States citizenship in order to apply for Dutch citizenship. Even caused me to ban Fox & Friends this week (one anchor and I were in school together, I was in the Arts and Sciences, the anchor was in Journalism) and must watch MSNOW Morning Joe. UGH! (One year it was so bad I became my voice teacher’s Magda Sorel from six months prior, was forced to starve on Thanksgiving, plead my case and forced to starve that I wept openly, wanting to eat but banned at the table — wanted to kill myself in the Sorel family kitchen gas oven. I ended up with a PB&J at 12:02 AM Friday and the fancy dinner we had wasn’t allowed for me.) Paid for it and not allowed to eat. Felt like Magda Sorel.

Thankful that church has been always wear a jacket and tie. ALWAYS. I’d rather have Ailes Era Fox & Friends for the dress code in church. You have to be dressed if you are attending the early service, especially with the Governor or my Representative in church (I often speak to my Congressman in church). I was run off the local church and drive an hour away because of the “Felkel Incident” when an extended family member questioned sotierological changes (Baptist church going more Methodist, and now they use liberal Baptist material for their choral and youth music ministries, but their services are led by singing Steven Furtick and Bill Johnson every Sunday).

At that church locally, nobody cared to wear jackets because they wanted to hear their band perform hits.

[oldtech]

I have nothing against folks dressing up for Church, but I hate ties. Not because of how they look, I just don’t like them for myself. However, I have noticed a trend toward dressing down for Church as compared to what it used to be like.