To claim other people shouldn't wear certain clothes to certain events is in the mind of the person who feels that way.
All of you, or most of you, claim to be conservatives or libertarians and express a wish for less government intrusion into your lives but you don't have a qualm about telling other people how they should dress! What hypocrites. Either you are for freedom or you are not. Wearing what you wish for whatever occasion is the right of every individual in the US or the world for that matter. What a bunch of control freaks a lot of you are!
Correction on my post 119. The word vvery should be very and snooby should be snobby!
Please calm down. I doubt anyone here would propose that the government force people to dress one way or another.
Yes, you have the right to wear what you wish (subject to indecency laws and private property rights). And I have the right to criticize what you wear. As you say, either you are for freedom or you are not -- and that includes freedom of speech.
Apples and oranges. Nobody is calling for government to legislate dress codes. We're talking about standards of behavior and dress that are followed in certain situations. Just because something is legal doesn't mean that civilized people should engage in it.
Wearing what you wish for whatever occasion is the right of every individual in the US or the world for that matter.
No, it isn't. Many private establishments and businesses have dress codes and they'll ask you to leave if you don't follow them. Even without such rules, a civilized person should always dress appropriately for the particular circumstances.
IMHO, people who wear a t-shirt to a nice restaurant or jeans to a wedding are either (a) ignorant of proper rules of decorum, meaning they weren't raised right or (b) making a childish statement: "look at me, look at me, I'm different!"