Alexander Campbell, co-founder of the American Restoration Movement, makes the following comments about the clothes one wears to worship ((from Alexander Campbell, The Millennial Harbinger, Vol. III, p. 439-440)):
On the Sabbath and in the cathedral the [English] nobility dress in their plainest garb...[they] appear in the sanctuary as though they sought not to be worshipped, but to worship God. But we [Americans] frequent the houses of prayer and the places of worship with all our "finery" upon us, as though our synagogues were theatres of fashion...
"Slovenly neglect and rustic coarseness," though also incongruous with good Christian taste, are nevertheless more tolerable in Christian assemblies, than the gaiety and style now in vogue amongst the American communities...