I have never attended church in jeans. I cant fathom going to see god in shorts or denim. My friend always goes to mass casual and actually refers to it as "Catholic Casual" lol.

The only time I dress up for Church is for Christmas midnight mass....

Catholic casual is def my style!!

The only times I've been to church are for weddings and funerals--so I can say that I always dress up for church. :p

I tend to overdress, but that's the way my parents raised me (and their parents, them).

i always dress up for church
sometimes i'm a little too dressed up for it
like if i have some awesome Enzos
i will buy an outfit to wear to church
just so i can show off my new shoes



by the way, something that i think parents are forgetting to teach the young joeys. . .eatting with their mouths closed and not smacking their food. . .that is just nerve wrenching

When I go to church at school, "Catholic Casual" is the order of the day - I mean, by all means, people wear like nice pants for Easter Vigil or Palm Sunday etc., but for most masses, boys wear khakis and a button down shirt and girls wear Seven Jeans and an appropriate shirt. My school seems to be weird though - we don't even wear "sorority girl black pants," just our Seven Jeans ALL the time.

I LOVE dressing up, personally... I have kind of always wished I lived in the 1940s or 50s! I love high heels, skirts, pearls, etc.

me too
except without the segregation and lynchings

other than that, i love the time period

I think that people should dress for the theater and symphony. I think that every woman should have a dress hanging in her closet for such an occasion.

My mother was a girl in a time when when women wore dresses, gloves, and hats when they went to Manhattan. Times have changed, but there are still places where people should dress a little nicer than their average daily wear. The theater ticket group to which my bf belongs requests its members dress appropriately meaning no jeans, t-shirts, sneakers, or shorts. I don't think that that is too much to ask.

White Chocolate, we could also do without the lack of career choices for women!

Oops, didn't mean to hijack the thread!

YES very very true... it's so gross when college guys smack their lips while they're eating... I was over at one of my sister's houses and her friend came over... we were eating subs and watching TV, and all I heard was him smacking his lips... I couldn't even look over. Another time I couldn't even watch this guy eat spaghetti at the dining hall. No table manners.

I remember, when I was growing up, there was an annoucement at every Mass during the summer months, about appropriate dress for church. People would show up in tank tops and short shorts. The church did not have A/C at the time, so I guess they were just being practical, but it didn't "look" right.

I also remember my dad getting dressed up to fly. Jacket and tie on the airplane even if we were going on vacation. People kept mistaking him for a business traveler. :p

I'm not saying we should return to the days of always wearing a jacket and tie at the office, women should wear skirts rather than pants, etc. I wear pants most of the time (though on Friday I wore a dress). But I don't believe that T-shirts and jeans have any place at a concert hall, upscale restaurant, or religious service (unless you are unfortunate enough not to own anything else).

I love the 40's and 50's too. I'm a huge fan of the black and white movies on TCM (espcially Mildred Pierce with Joan Crawford)

tnxbutterfly, is that the one where the daughter kills someone and the whole movie revolves around the mother at the police station confessing to the murder and taking the fall? I love that movie!

yeah, the daughter killed her stepfather because they (the daughter and the stepfather were having an affair) but in the end, they found out the daughter really did it and took her off to jail

Re: The deterioration of American society
 

You gotta be kidding! People behaved like this in Avery Fisher Hall??????

That's it. It's the end of the world. Armaggeddon is next.

I grew up going to performances there (w/ lunch/dinner @ the Russian Tea Room) and I didn't put one *toe* out of line, as young as 12.

I thought some people in my new hometown were barbaric for that same kind of behaviour, I didn't know it had spread back to NYC.

Common courtesy, folks....guess it isn't so common anymore. I share your grief, aephi alum...

Adrienne

Catholic casual is definitely the style at my church - when I was in confirmation classes I usually was dressed up because I had to book it to work right afterwards, and I always felt out of place.

However, people who cannot look decent for a funeral annoy me to no end. At GPBoy's funeral somebody came wearing OVERALLS. Could they have not taken 5 seconds to at least put on a jeans and a collared shirt before riding their tractor to the services? :p