The website states:
Dress Code
Guests are asked to adhere to the minimum dress code requirements at this Signature Dining experience. Dressier attire is also welcome. Please explore the minimum dress code requirements:
Men must wear khakis, slacks or dress shorts and collared shirts. Jeans may be worn if in good condition. Sport coats are optional.
Women must wear Capri pants, skirts, dresses or dress shorts. Jeans may be worn if in good condition.
Not permitted are tank tops, flip-flops, swimsuits, swimsuit cover-ups, hats for gentlemen, cut-offs, torn clothing and t-shirts with offensive language and/or graphics.
The key words are, "Guests are
ASKED to adhere...."
ASKED, not required.
We are Vacation Club members and our 'home resort' is Bay Lake Tower attached to Contemporary. By default, we eat at our hotel just for the convenience. This means 1- or 2-times each year; use to be as many as 3-times when we had no child in school.
We have seen it all. I stopped letting it bother me.
Folks not staying on-site really have no way of showering after the Parks. Oh well.
And some folks find jeans with the well-placed shredding of fabric to be stylish. Oh well.
And plenty of women have a pretty dress and are simply more comfortable wearing simple sandals - that could very well be flip-flops. Oh well.
And a follicly-challenged person, or someone trying to shade their face may very well need to arrive with a hat. So folks remove their hats and now expose their hat-hair. Oh well.
Cut-off shorts with noticeable scissor lines are horrible. And a tank-top undershirt for men (sometimes called wife-beaters) are not he same as a spaghetti-strap tank for women. This is what Disney is trying to stop.
Yes, some people arrive looking to have a Signature experience - showering, putting on fancy clothes, maybe taking extra time for make-up, but others just have different needs and opportunities that make their experiences different.
Do I wish everyone would arrive in 'nice clothes' to make all the Signatures a Signature-experience - Yup. But that's simply not possible at a place like Disney where the needs of everyone arriving are so vastly diverse.
The fact that folks ask about proper-attire is a good thing. But it really does not take much to be in proper-attire, even if coming from or dining in the Parks. We've all been there - that's part of the beauty of Disney. I readily admit - this understanding took me a few years to accept at the Signatures, particularly a place with the elegance of CA Grill. But should anyone be denied access to CA Grill simply because they came from a day in the Parks - Nope.