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Modesty and how to dress
« Reply #110 on: September 19, 2010, 04:52:26 AM »
Quote from: Telesphorus
The vehement defense of the fashions of the 20th century and the ridicule and mischaracterization of those who make valid criticisms of them is indefensible.


Mischaracterisation? A bit like how people who defend women wearing trousers apparently also believe that there is something wrong with wearing skirts? That women who wear trousers never wear skirts!

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« Reply #111 on: September 19, 2010, 06:17:59 AM »
Quote from: clare
They were not always men's clothes either. Our Lord, and St Joseph didn't wear them.


But they did wear men's clothes.  Not women's clothes.  Trousers have been men's clothes, and remain men's clothes and not women's clothes, except among people who accept feminist fashions.

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Cardinal Siri said they were not immodest!


Not all pants are immodest.  Generally speaking women wear immodest pants.  That's the reality of the world.  Pants outline more, and generally speaking, they fit snugly around a womans waist, hips and upper legs.  Generally speaking, walking down the street, women's pants are immodest.  

Quote from: Cardinal Siri
...the wearing of men's trousers by women cannot be said to constitute as such a grave offence against modesty, because trousers certainly cover more of woman's body than do modern women's skirts.


Except Cardinal Siri is condemning pants, and he's also suggesting modern women's skirts are very bad as well.

I can't imagine why anyone is so supportive of fashions that come from the de-Christianizing of society.

I don't think a woman who wears pants is necessarily sinning, but, I think a woman who realizes that pants are less feminine, that the wearing of pants by women became common because of the de-Christianization of society and the advance of feminism, would ever wear pants except for rough work or possibly sports.  Certainly never for social purposes.

Most women who wear pants are wearing immodest ones.


Modesty and how to dress
« Reply #112 on: September 19, 2010, 06:30:17 AM »
I think women should not wear pants because I think pants make women look ugly and longer dresses and skirts make women look beautiful.

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« Reply #113 on: September 19, 2010, 06:34:28 AM »
Quote from: Matto
I think women should not wear pants because I think pants make women look ugly and longer dresses and skirts make women look beautiful.


Indeed.  

Modesty and how to dress
« Reply #114 on: September 19, 2010, 09:03:11 AM »
Quote from: Telesphorus
But they did wear men's clothes.  Not women's clothes.  


Indeed, and men's and women's clothes were not as dissimilar as they became when men started wearing trousers.

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Trousers have been men's clothes, and remain men's clothes and not women's clothes, except among people who accept feminist fashions.


Men's trousers are men's clothing. Women's trousers are women's clothing. Men's robes were men's clothing. Women's robes were women's clothing.

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Pants outline more, and generally speaking, they fit snugly around a womans waist, hips and upper legs.


And men have more to outline. Men and women should both wear long tops covering the hip area if they are going to wear trousers.

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I can't imagine why anyone is so supportive of fashions that come from the de-Christianizing of society.


I do not support fashions that come from the de-Christianising of society. I don't think women's loose fitting trousers do. Short skirts do, tight trousers do. Tattoos do! Lots of piercings do! But modest trousers do not.

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I don't think a woman who wears pants is necessarily sinning, but, I think a woman who realizes that pants are less feminine, that the wearing of pants by women became common because of the de-Christianization of society and the advance of feminism, would ever wear pants except for rough work or possibly sports.  Certainly never for social purposes.

Most women who wear pants are wearing immodest ones.


Well, I only ever wear them for physiotherapy, and they are perhaps a bit figure-hugging, so I generally wear a long top covering the hip area. But I hardly ever wear them anyway.

I am not flailing around doing physio in a skirt though!

(I don't know what is wrong with the formatting of this post, all the quote tags are in the right place, and I'm running out of editing time!)