Sunday best?

[davidlpope]

I wear a suit or a sportcoat/slacks and tie. Maybe once a month I'll forgo the tie.

There are a few other folks that dress similarly. Most wear slacks and a broadcloth shirt or polo shirt. At the far end of the spectrum are t-shirts, shorts, and flip-flops.

I think churchgoing attire reflects the prevailing culture. My observation seems to be that, regardless of occasion, men of all ages tend to dress less formally and more juvenile-ish than they did in the past.

On the odd occasion when I wear a kilt to church, I wear it with a tweed jacket, leather sporran, and non-tartan tie.

Cordially,

David

[Peter Crowe]

I wear a suit or a sportcoat/slacks and tie. Maybe once a month I'll forgo the tie.

There are a few other folks that dress similarly. Most wear slacks and a broadcloth shirt or polo shirt. At the far end of the spectrum are t-shirts, shorts, and flip-flops.

I think churchgoing attire reflects the prevailing culture. My observation seems to be that, regardless of occasion, men of all ages tend to dress less formally and more juvenile-ish than they did in the past.

On the odd occasion when I wear a kilt to church, I wear it with a tweed jacket, leather sporran, and non-tartan tie.

Cordially,

David

*** I agree David, and dress similarly, and leave off the tie if it is a particularly hot summer day.

[John_Carrick]

I wear a lounge suit to church, as I always have done, to church (Anglican) in the West of Ireland. I can remember being admonished for not wearing a tie one week. I now realise I am one of two who dresses like this and everyone else wears sweaters, slacks, track suits, etc.
I'm not a big Margaret Thatcher person, but I do empathise her father's wisdom that one should not do something because that is what everyone else does.
John

[planemaker]

If you think the level of dress at regular church has gone down, you should go to a funeral. My wife to be and I went to one not too long ago and people were wearing shorts and t-shirts, base ball caps!!!

[knotty]

If you think the level of dress at regular church has gone down, you should go to a funeral. My wife to be and I went to one not too long ago and people were wearing shorts and t-shirts, base ball caps!!!

The last funeral I went to I saw all that plus a lady who looked like she was going to work ... at the closest light post! At least she had the legs for it

[madmacs]

If you think the level of dress at regular church has gone down, you should go to a funeral. My wife to be and I went to one not too long ago and people were wearing shorts and t-shirts, base ball caps!!!

Ditto for weddings... Even seeing a tie in the midwest is a rarity, especially on folks under 50

[okiwen]

I have worn a kilt to church for the last four times. I do not where a sporran but i do wear a jacket and a tie as I would with a normal suit. I was raised to dress appropriately for church and have done the same for all my children. I hope they will teach their kids the same. In the down fall of the family we have lost much in society.

[AKScott]

I think it is finding the middle ground between the level of dress you can expect everyone else to be in, and something that fits your comfort zone with respect to your own self.

Jesus did say to give the best seats in the house to the poor, I think in either Luke or John, not Matthew and I don't think that passage is in Mark. Any road, outside of Easter or Christmas Eve if I am kilted I'll go with a long sleeve collared shirt and a tie - and lay on the color contrasts - but save the jacket and chained sporran for the higher attendance, more widely celebrated events.

I agree that the falling away of the concept of Sunday best is lamentable; but I think how well dressed we are on the outside isn't the point of the exercise..

[Tobus]

Ditto for weddings... Even seeing a tie in the midwest is a rarity, especially on folks under 50

No kidding. The last two weddings I've been to, I was shocked at the way people were dressed. I wore a plain suit to one, and my kilt to the other. But in both cases, I was just about the only person wearing a tie except the wedding party. Most men were wearing blue jeans or shorts & sandals. The women were generally wearing shorts or short-skirts with sandals.

I'm not that old (I'm only 38), but I guess I was raised with old-fashioned values. I cannot enter a house of worship for any type of service (be it church, wedding, funeral, or other service) without dressing up. My mother, the late Methodist minister, would turn over in her grave if I wore casual outdoor clothes to church!

*edited to add:

In answer to the OP's question, if wearing the kilt to church, I think anything in the "day wear" or "dressy" range would do. I would stay away from PCs or formal sporrans with chains, but that's just me.

[knotty]

... one should not do something because that is what everyone else does.
John

Well said

What Ive always thought.