The principle is not at fault merely because it is not followed due to the insistence of the lower instincts. Nobody has time to think over this matter, because there is no one without prejudice and selfishness. The integral life is a life of non-attachment on one side and freedom from hatred on another side. That is why it is called integral. When the social relationships are well-fed and taken care of, and the needs of the instinct of living a family life are also matured systematically, impartially, the householder retires from this duty to have relations with society, relations, with anybody.
Retirement means the freedom from the necessity to be involved in social relations.
But once one has passed through that stage and has graduated from that stage, then a tendency to super-individuality creeps in. Up to this level, people were individuals. Brahmacharis are individuals of one kind, the householder is an individual of a different kind. This is a higher stage above that of a householder. This stage has nothing to do with any kind of dress or gesture.