Author Topic: Modesty and how to dress (Read 40680 times)

Sigismund · « **Reply #25 on:** August 08, 2010, 11:47:22 AM »

Quote from: clare

Quote from: Alex
They're talking about the tights that were worn as more like pants that were part of the fashion then- not the ones under a woman's skirt or dress.

Oh, I see! That makes sense.

Except it doesn't fit with Padre Pio's ban on his spiritual daughters wearing transparent stockings. Surely it goes without saying that his spiritual daughters would be wearing long enough skirts for it not to matter?

Also, presumably transparent stockings would not be worn as trousers. They would be worn under skirts.

St. Pio was a great priest and a holy man, but it does not follow that everything he said was binding on all Catholics everywhere for all time. :)

Joseph de Maistre · « **Reply #26 on:** August 08, 2010, 06:30:10 PM »

It's miserable how poorly some people dress at Mass. T-shirts, short skirts, ill-fitting clothing... It is truly an afterthought for them.

Caminus · « **Reply #27 on:** August 08, 2010, 08:10:51 PM »

If shorts would be inappropriate dress at Mass, how can ladies justify wearing skirts that only reach the knees?

Caminus · « **Reply #28 on:** August 08, 2010, 08:19:28 PM »

"We recall that a dress cannot be called decent which is cut deeper than two fingers breadth under the pit of the throat, which does not cover the arms at least to the elbows, and scarcely reaches a bit beyond the knee."

How many ladies are there in SSPX chapels who have failed to grasp the urgency of this message? How many graces are being lost because of negligent disregard?

Telesphorus · « **Reply #29 on:** August 08, 2010, 08:46:04 PM »

Quote from: clare

It's still illogical.

Skirts must reach below the knees. They needn't reach the ankles.

But why shouldn't they reach the ankles? I think it's safe to say they were required to cover the feet through most of our history.

If Pius XII said they should go below the knees, that's a bare minimum, a concession to modern times.