We wore dresses or suits, hats and gloves and our handbags matched our good high heel shoes
Even as a teenager I owned 6 hats..
But when my mother read in the paper in the early 1960s that someone had rented a building right on the beach in California and was holding church services there and allowing people to come in off the beach in shorts or bikinis, my hat and glove mother said “Well at least they’re going to church. God doesn’t really care how you dress as long as you go”
Of course she didn’t mean people could be half dressed..
When we would go camping at the beach with friends in the 60’s, we always packed a shift dress and a kerchief for our heads for Mass on Sunday. We wouldn’t have dreamed of going to church in shorts, let alone short shorts or even jeans. These were resort towns on Lake Michigan, so it would have been easy to just go in beach clothes. We had too much of a sense of decorum in those days and we were kids.