I have heard it said that one should always wear their "Sunday Best" for Mass.  If it is within one's means, does that mean one should wear Morning Dress to Mass?  Including top hat?

 :dancing-banana:I don't any man who owns a top hat except the gender-confused actor downstairs.  Where would men put their hats during Mass?  Last time I recall pew backs with hat-holders was maybe 1969.  I was removed unceremoniously from the church by my father for snapping one on my sister's finger.  After a thorough thrashing in the side yard, I was brought back in and sat quiet as a mouse in the back row.  

If men were dressing well for Mass and it included hats, the church or chapel would do well to purchase hat racks or install hooks in their pews. Otherwise, a man could certainly put his hat on the pew next to him, or on the floor out of the way.

If need be, he could leave his hat in the car on the way into Mass, since he'd be taking it off and leaving it off the entire time he was in the church anyway.

What a nice, dignified and respectable (and counter-cultural, these days) "problem" we would have if men in suits didn't have anywhere to store their hats!

I know there are problems with the movie "For Greater Glory", because the script makes the movie into a screed in favor of "religious liberty" rather than defense of the true Faith, but

WOW!

I wish I could walk down a street in America today and see men, women and young people dressed in such mannered and respectable ways.

It used to be that a suit or at least a coat and tie (or even just a SHIRT and tie) were the everyday clothes of even the working man, because no matter what his station in life, he presented himself with dignity.

Of course, there was also a time when television and radio and recording-studio personnel wore ties and LAB COATS while they worked; these days, any knuckle-dragging cretin with a webcam and an Internet connection can parade around in next to nothing as they feed their narcissistic individualism.

If you told the average person today what the Scriptures say about taking the lower, less dignified seat at a banquet until one was invited to a more prominent place, they would look at you like you were insane. Every idiot on earth these days seems to believe that it is their unassailable RIGHT and PRIVILEGE to be as arrogant and selfish as they please.

I'd love to see a photo thread of CathInfo members and their families (where applicable) dressed in their Sunday best for Holy Mass!

Pretty please? :-)

 :applause:Bravo!  Believe it or not, in Manhattan, NYC, and in outer borroughs to lesser extent, one still sees a good number of well-dressed men and women, most of whom work in the corporate and medical worlds.  Although a few high profile physicians resemble Dr. House, most wear suits beneath their lab coats.  Dress standards in public education have hit an all-time low, in accord with the standards in general.  Yesterday, my principal, (private school), attended an administrators' conference at which she was introduced to two "building principals" of NYC public elementary schools.  The male principal had on faded jeans, Crocs, a golf shirt and wore a Yankees baseball cap throughout the conference.  The female wore capris, flip-flops, a clingy spandex top so tight that her nipples showed through.  Not that it mattered because her bosom was nearly hanging out, and she sported tattoos of snakes coiled around her Michelle Obama arms, and another of an elephant suckling a cow on her upper back.  (And principals complain the parents don't respect them!)