Dress in a dignified manner when visiting sacred places.
I visited St Peter’s when a teenager, when just about everyone smoked. I think it was in the portico that someone had a cigarette in his mouth. The attendant said something to him. When I guess he didn’t respond fast enough, the attendant slapped it right out of his mouth
“Dress in a dignified manner when visiting sacred places.”
When I go to church ALONE to practice organ, I take off my jeans and put on a dress or skirt.
I'm surprised there are still places considered to be sacred.
When I go to a regular Sunday Mass, I'm still perplexed by what some consider decent dress for a sacred event.
It's probably because I'm old and remember the Latin Mass where women covered their heads and men wore suits {or the best clothes that they had}.