I don’t think wearing a white shirt makes you a better person.
Having said that, there definitely is something to be said for a “uniform” so to speak.
Imagine a Admiral in a sweatshirt.
Even a bellhop in the Ritz Carlton in a Yankees tee shirt…
Sort of how in some communities, it doesn’t make you a “better person” if you wear a tux to the wedding, but it sure shows how you value yourself as person…
Someone who would show up there in jeans would be giving off a very l-o-u-d message.
I think we’re so impervious to these ideas because most of us grew up in a society where the head of state dressed as befitting his position.
Now we are flashed pictures of the President with his feet up on the desk and the Vice President in shorts…