Can I?

[Guest Alana]

Go for it. Though, they'll probably know you're a visitor and so you'll get extra attention. We have quite a few who attend in jeans, men and women. Some of them are investigators, some are there because they are the caretakers of their mothers and some just felt like wearing jeans. Dresses and collar shirts are the standard but as long as you're not wearing a bathing suit I don't think any one will care.

[Elrond]

You can walk into a chapel wearing whatever you have to wear but it is only respectful that you do not dirty the floor or the furnishings. Remember that if you dirty the upholstery on the pews then someone else will be sitting in your dirt afterwards wearing their best clothes.

Will you be judged? Quite possibly but not on the 'poshness' of your clothing as much as the perceived lack of consideration for others if you seem to be spreading dirt around the place.

I can't help being curious about what physical reason you can have for not wearing a suit. My husband can't stand to wear a tie and as soon as he comes out of the chapel off it comes but he always wears one in church and for other formal occasions. If you do not own a suit you will not be turned away. If you cannot afford a suit you will not be refused church membership because of that.

You will not be cast out for what is on the outside. However, remember that God judges what is on the inside.

Oh no no no... I am not that pigpen kid from Charlie Brown with the dust pluming all around him!

I would not stain furniture, and I would wear clean clothes.... just not a suit & tie!

I have actually worn a suit without a tie. In the 90s I had a Sonny Crocket Miami Vice suit.... I lost that or outgrew it years ago. But no tie. It was a cream color sport suit kinda thing.

Oh, I have tatoos on both arms as well. Mainly Native art. Originally it was occult stuff and girls names as a teenager. I covered most of that because I am not married to any of the names on my arm and I don't practice occult. I actually have a symbolic story in little images on my left arm. It shows creation and life on our world. At the bottom is starfish and shells and fish, as you get higher there are birds and land animals, at the top are stars and moons..... it's really a story and took me several days to do.. there are also a couple mystery symbols only I know, so don't ask!

[Moksha]

Because I have known of churches where they will turn you away at the door if you aren't wearing a suit or a woman isn't wearing a dress.

Most Churches I have ever visited were casual in their dress. Actually, I think it is somewhat rare to find a Church that emulates the IBM Corporation dress code (white shirts, tie, dark suits).

Did you know that in the early Church they only wore robes! Had you shown up there in a suit or tie, they would have wondered what strange land you came from. Can we assume from that, God's changing fashion sense? Or perhaps it is unimportant to God the fanciness of our clothing, but rather that we gather in his name.