Since you asserted conscience in a later post I decided to go back to the source.
Read carefully, your post is actually fairly offensive in some parts. Basically, you are saying that because you think the bride and groom would have a better time if they wore casual clothing, you assert the right to go ahead and do so even though you know that they have decided on more formal attire. Thus, you are really going with what I would consider a fairly beligerant attitude; no wonder the groom's mother reacted as she did.
As to casual dress in offices, it's actually on the way out. The suit is coming back in, at least in companies that traditionally used traditional dress.
And schools that go to a dress code, or even as far as uniforms, are finding that students perform better. Our district just this year went to a dress code. It's too early, obviously, to know what the results here will be, but they had some fairly convincing studies showing that more strict dress standards led to better school performance.
The point, though, being, as Rambi pointed out, that formal doesn't have to mean uncomfortable. If you shop properly, you can find comfortable wedding appropriate clothing. That you chose not to do so, when obviously you could have afforded to, shows, as your post suggests, that comfort wasn't your real issue, but that you wanted to use the wedding as a soapbox to make a point. Maybe the bride's family accepted this, but IMO it really was an abuse of the groom's obviously unprepared family. |
