Workplace Dress Codes Don’t Matter Much—Until There’s a Problem

Finally, our nation’s great political minds were able to come together to forge a compromise that will enable us to move forward as a nation, united, behind a common front.

I’m referring, of course, to the recent adoption of a dress code for the US Senate.

Over the last several years, our dignity as a world leader has been threatened by the fact that certain senators were flouting convention and wearing inappropriate attire on the Senate floor. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), for example, once wore a denim vest while presiding over the Senate, and Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) made it ...