No jeans or shorts are permitted. Ladies are required to wear a dress or skirt and blouse. Many see a tragedy where racetracks and nightclubs have dress standards which seem more severe than those promoted by some houses of worship. My current musings about dress codes were prompted by an article in The Wall Street Journal which described the state of dress and undress of tourists attempting to enter St. Peter's Basilica. The Vatican and St. Peter's Basilica have had a dress code for more than 400 years, but the past decade has seen an increasing number of infringements and would-be infringers.
Guards say tourists are demonstrating manners which are as poor or skimpy as their apparel.
In spite of the fact that the requirements are widely posted, irate tourists physically attack guards who refuse the improperly clad admittance to what is arguably one of the Roman Catholic Church's most holy places. He eventually found a classmate willing to lend him a spare pair of long khakis. But this religion thing goes too deep. I have never been an advocate of a dress code for church members. I will, in all probability, never be an advocate of such standards.