...i guess i have to get in my two cents.
its reality that the majority of people are not interested in "dressing up" anymore, to the point where khaki pants and button down shirts are considered a pain in the you know what.
i personally think that this is kind of sad.
dont get me wrong: during the summer, i'm a shorts, t-shirts and teva-wearing fool. but there are those places and occasions that require, at least a LITTLE bit of effort in dressing up.
i believe that management just wants people to TRY harder, leave the running shorts, the tank tops, the inappropriate wear in the hotel room. few people are putting the EFFORT into wearing decent clothes. management is tired of it, and perhaps even some guests have complained as well. when you can easily drop over a $100 (or more) a couple for a meal in the mentioned restaurants, whats so wrong with a minor dress code? the requests are reasonable, its not like suit and tie is required everywhere.
i know wdw is a family resort, but its become a very large vacation destination with many different activities for all interests. the suggested code affects a small percentage of the dining choices.
and trust me, NO ONE will be turned away, unless they really are a mess.
on a trip back in the early seventies, my family took a break from the mk (only park there at the time), went back to hotel on 192, and we changed from our park wear into decent, resort casual wear: nothing fancy, just shorts, decent shirts, and we had a suprise dinner at a restaurant in the poly. its still one of my nicer memories of my early trips to wdw. we went back to the park after dinner, and stayed until 2:00 a.m., which was great but thats another story...
