Dress code for signature restaurants...

[BillSears]

Is this new?

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Men: Dress slacks, jeans, trousers, or dress shorts, short- or long-sleeved shirt with a collar or t-shirt required. Jackets are optional.
Ladies: Jeans, skirt, or dress shorts with blouse, sweater or t-shirt, or a dress required.
Not permitted: tank tops, swimsuits or swimsuit cover-ups, hats for gentlemen, cut offs, or torn clothing of any kind.
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T-Shirts are officially signature attire now?

 

[jlewisinsyr]

I don't think they every prohibited t-shirts, I know I've worn them a few times, although I usually wear polos.

 

[ga9497]

Some people go directly to the restaurants from the theme parks and are in t-shirts. They were never prohibited. They just always asked for no tank tops / torn clothing, hats.

I have seen people in jean shorts, jeans, sneakers, etc but as long as they look neat they don't care

 

[bytheblood]

That is the way it has been as long as I can recall.

 

[DSNY4ever]

We were just there and we both wore jeans and nice tops (me blouse and sweater, my husband a nice sweater, and we both wore nice shoes). We saw people dressed really nicely, and people dressed a lot worse than us (???). It seemed pretty lax. I wish we could have really dressed up, but we had to go straight from the theme park, we had to carry my dress shoes in our backpack and I changed them in line for the bus

 

[onelilspark]

I think it's new that it's written into the dress code.

IMO...I think it's a little ridiculous that people are willing to pay $50+/pp for a meal that they're wearing a tee shirt to...

 

[BriarRosie]

I have a heavier-weight knit tshirt that I wear with capris and sandals to the signature restaurants. It's definitely a "resort casual" look, and not the character tshirts I'd wear in the parks.

But if I saw a decently behaved family wearing park clothes in a signature restaurant, as long as it wasn't torn clothing, I wouldn't bat an eyelash these days.

The only restaurant on WDW property that I'd be bothered with lack of a dress code is Victoria and Albert's. Everything else isn't THAT formal.

 

[disney_mommy]

I don't think they enforce the dress codes very well anyway, at least they didn't the time we went to California Grill on our last night at Disney. We were all dressed up in dresses and suits, even my young DS, and there were people walking around in shorts and flip flops and ragged tee shirts and spaghetti strap tanks.

While I appreciate that this is a wide world of diverse tastes and styles, I honestly felt that it took away from the mood and special-ness of the evening by being surrounded by people that looked like they just rolled out of bed.

Now, please no flames, but I'm just expressing a personal opinion.

 

[jlewisinsyr]

Considering how casual Disney is I see no issues with shorts, t-shirts, polo's etc. Disney is not the only exclusion to this lax policy in Florida, even places like Emeril's in Universal are very lax on dress code.

I don't mind dressing up to go out to dinner, but I also am not bothered if someone isn't up to my dresscode standards, I enjoy myself all the same.

 

[onelilspark]

I guess when I think of tee-shirt I think of one with the characters on it. Just a plain solid color tee you can pair with capris or a skirt and look approprite to me.

Then again, I'm big into etiquette. I'm not going to scoff at other people if they chose to not dress up a bit, I just question why they want to pay that much if they're not dressing any nicer. To me it kind of ruins the atmosphere of having a "nice" meal. I just chose where to eat for my birthday and while Jiko is my favorite, because we're not staying on property, I didn't want to go right from the parks to the restaurant, so I opted for Kona, where I know I can wear whatever I have on in the park that day and still be appropriate. I don't know...I guess I just don't get it... Different strokes for different folks I suppose. I know I tend to be over dressed for things Oh well!

 

[BillSears]

Thanks all. I guess this is just the first time I've seem the T-Shirt being allowed actually in print. It's from the 2009 DDP brochure. I guess I don't have to worry about telling my DD's Fiance that he can't wear a T-Shirt to dinner at Jiko or CG on my next trip. He's pretty good about dressing appropriately but as long as it's clean it looks like it's good.

 

[WDW Princess 71]

I don't think they enforce the dress codes very well anyway, at least they didn't the time we went to California Grill on our last night at Disney. We were all dressed up in dresses and suits, even my young DS, and there were people walking around in shorts and flip flops and ragged tee shirts and spaghetti strap tanks.

While I appreciate that this is a wide world of diverse tastes and styles, I honestly felt that it took away from the mood and special-ness of the evening by being surrounded by people that looked like they just rolled out of bed.

Now, please no flames, but I'm just expressing a personal opinion.

I completely agree with you. I have a problem with the fact that when you call to make your ADR's they actually make you listen to their speech about the dress code (even after I tell them I've been going to these signature restaurants for 13 years), but yet when you get to the restaurant, they let you in as long as you are in clothes. I feel the same as you in that it definitely ruins the atmosphere when you are in a nice restaurant and people are not dressed properly- the last time we went to Yachtsman Steakhouse, there was a teen girl in a terrycloth bathing suit coverup dress and flip flops, with her bathing suit underneath, and another time there was an overweight dad in a beach tank top, he looked so inappropriate, I mean you could see his armpit hair for crying out loud! I understand its WDW and suit and ties would be overboard, but come on and have a little respect for yourself before going out that way. I think they should drop the dress code altogether or at least enforce it if they are going to have it!