Restaurant Dinner Tendencies:Dress-up?

[shootingstar]

Just came back from a lovely gourmet restaurant here in Maui where we had a long dinner. We were just in walking shorts and T-shirts, clean running shoes. Temperature is well over 80 degrees this evening.

But it occurred to me whenever we go to gourmet restaurants, the number of women who dress up more --a summer dress which here in the tropics, is a halter dress or if pants, casual good capris, nice casual but slightly more dressy top with a nice casual purse. Several women wore dress high heeled strappy sandals.

There are times I kinda wonder if there's something WRONG with my sense of style at this time of life. Neither my partner or I bother to dress well or semi-dressy casual for any gourmet restaurant if it's just the 2 of us having dinner together. When we go on vacation out of town, neither of us want the additional weight of dressier outift. And at home, on the rare occasion we do go out to an expensive restaurant (vs. a good, inexpensive place), we don't dress up either.

What is your style of dress whenever you go to a gourmet/good restaurant with your loved one or with 1-2 close good friends?