Democrats in the United States Senate had unsuccessfully tried to relax the strict dress code in the chamber to allow members to wear alternatives to the traditional everyday jacket and tie.

Earlier, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had told the Senate Sergeant at Arms the chamber's unwritten dress code need no longer be enforced.

Schumer's action, however, which apparently allowed partymate John Fetterman to come in shorts and hoodies, was met with resistance. Republican Susan Collins told NBC News she planned to "wear a bikini."

"I think there is a certain dignity that we should be maintaining in the Senate, and to do away with the dress code, to me, debases the institution," Collins said, according to Agence France-Presse.

Senator Bill Hagerty, a Republican, told Fox Business the move was "just another step in the movement by the Democrats to transform America, to take us to a place that is much less respectful than we historically have been."

The latest word is that the Senate unanimously passed a resolution formalizing business attire as the proper dress code. So much for what one Republican senator said of some colleagues dressing "like clowns."

Meanwhile, golf course dress code violations have harsh consequences, as the Crooked Creek Golf Course general manager in Ottawa Lake, Michigan, recently imposed on a golfer.

According to reports, Heather Ryan told John Reeb, 41, of Archbald, Ohio, to never return after the latter's outburst on the fairway.

A TikTok user could video the confrontation between Reeb and a group of golfers that triggered the ban. It started when he grabbed the ball of a female golfer. Reeb refused when she tried to get it back, and the argument escalated.

In the now-viral video, Reeb is shown ripping off his shirt and challenging the other golfers to a fight, prompting Ryan to kick the shirtless man off the course, the New York Post reported.

 WITH AFP