Ambush, Let me explain you a major major difference between Meah Shearim and Lakewood. Meah Shearim is in a jewish country runned by jews. The jews are able to make their own rules for that city. So therefore if they put up a sign such as what you pointed out i would obey it.
Also another difference between Lakewood and the sign in meah Shearim is as following: In Meah Shearim they are asking a very normal thing. They just want people to dress tzniusdig when the town is anyways runned by jews and 99.99999% percent of it’s inhabitants are jews. So therefore they aren’t asking for so much. In Lakewood, the person who started this thread wants no businessman to move into Lakewood. he wants no restaurants and businesses in lakewood. That is totally different. How does he expect people to sit in kollel if there is no money coming in??? The money doesn’t grow on trees. It is all coming from the businessman. so you can’t say that these people shouldn’t move into lakewood. I was just in Lakewood this past shabbos. Whoever thinks that there are no goyim in lakewood that don’t dress the way we do has it totally wrong. Lakewood is filled with goyim too. I’m not trying to say that the frum people shouldn’t dress tzniusdig. I’m trying to say that i shouldn’t get looks and stares if i’m not wearing the same exact levush as the residents of Lakewood. Is it assur to wear a buttoned down shirt with a bit of color to it {in the summer}??