Dress Code for dining out

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After reading a question posed concerning Restaurant August, I began to think about how proper attire at finer dining establishments has become such an afterthought that jeans are now "accepted" at locations where I previously (and currently for that fact) would not have been caught dead in them. Did I miss the memo that our society has become so lazy as to now refuse to take the extra fifteen minutes to put on slacks and a dress shirt for dining out at finer venues. What say you, board? Am I just caught up in the old school ways and out of touch with today's acceptable dining norms or is this a lost tradition that should (but won't) be brought back?

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To each his own. I'd either buy a new pair of slacks, shoes, belt, shirt, etc and take a shower or drive to br and change, then drive back to new orleans before going in Impostatos in jeans.

I'm 32, who knows.

We also don't wear wigs or ruffled shirts like Hamilton or Washington either. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I'm just saying dress and style changes with time.

Honestly, I wanna be the pimp old man when i'm walkin around with my cane, bet your arse I'll be sportin some gangsta hat.

I'm constantly in jeans and often wearing a cap that needs to come off once inside some lower to middle-tier places, yet wouldn't dream of going into "finer" establishments this way..

But, must agree, that it's out of control, and it is a nationwide epidemic. It has turned places like Vegas from 'Rat Pack Chic' into 'Disney In The Desert' full of shorts, tees, and slippers.

Dressing down is evident in churches, restaurants, sporting events, college campuses, even some work places.

Nine out of ten times I go to dinner I have slacks and a dress shirt. Eight out of ten I have a blazer or sport coat. Six out of ten I have a tie.

I may be a little more casual at lunch and on occasion have jeans but I also dine at the appropriate places. I would never go to Galatoire's in jeans even for lunch. And I've passed up many lunches because I didn't have the right attire.

I stated on here not long ago about the black AC/DC t shirts, jorts and baseball caps and bad tennis shoes quite a few people had on at lunch at Mansur's. I told the maitre' d I would not be back because of the dress code. He knew what I meant but he has to fight for the almighty lunch dollar. I understand his position however if a dress code was established he would not lose a customer. Probably be even busier.

Growing up as kids if we went out to dinner with our parents we wore coat and tie.

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I've always found there's a cutoff between places I'll go in jeans and a t-shirt, to places where you'd better believe I'll be wearing slacks and at the least a

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Skirt or dress.
+1

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And I've passed up many lunches because I didn't have the right attire.

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Bingo, Martini!!!! I was coming back into town from a job in SW Louisiana a while back and we were supposed to be having a company lunch at Mansur's that day. Having been in the field with a client, I was in jeans, steel toes, and a polo and arrived back in BR in time to attend...which I did not originally expect. My co-worker (about ten years younger than I) could not understand why I wouldn't go into the restaurant with dust covered boots and jeans. I tried to impress upon him that it was an issue of respect for myself and for the establishment. Of course, all he saw was "free food" and asked that I drop him off there.

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And this is why you fail...

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If you say so. Keep living your life based on others opinions and I will keep not giving a shite.

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not giving a shite.

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I love how this has become the grand virtue of our age.

Personally, I think this is a Baton Rouge area issue. I know I'm gonna get slammed for saying this, but many people in Baton Rouge and the outerlying areas are accustomed to dressing for a tailgate. Many believe shorts, jorts or jeans and an LSU t-shirt are suitable when everyone else is in slacks, a long sleeve shirt and a tie. Dont get me wrong I love BR but I think we're just too used to being very casually dressed.