Being a member of the Cathedral parish here which is one of the tourist attractions, we see everything - and I mean everything. Yesterday, I saw an Indian family where the women were dressed in beautifully colorful saris, a college aged girl in a decent shirt, but the shorts showed too much thigh. There’s always people who are obvious tourists in shorts and t-shirts, women wearing skin-tight anything and everything with entirely too much cleavage. It’s hard to do something about it when they are only in the church for one Sunday. The regulars, generally, aren’t so casual other than the medical people who come in scrubs either just before or after a shift. And then, that’s more decent than a lot of the visitors. Personally, since we have a huge collection of choir robes, I think we should hand them out at the door. Maybe then the people will get the message.
As someone who goes to Mass in a skirt that hits mid-shin and shirts that have sleeves with a jacket because it’s cold in there (I swear there’s a “hang meat” setting on the AC), this is pretty ridiculous. The US does have a very casual society and in this case, the spillover is starting to bite back.
Drop in the parish church of Św. Jakuba (St. Jacob's) in Toruń, Poland -- it's a 12th century Church and I'm convinced that it is actually colder inside there than outside -- in winter it is an igloo!