Author Topic: Modesty and how to dress (Read 33263 times)

clare · « **Reply #95 on:** September 18, 2010, 11:00:06 AM »

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I personally don't believe he was wrong, and don't you think it would have been sinful of him to be so judgmental to turn people away when they weren't sinning at all?

Objectively, yes. Subjectively, as he was convinced he was obeying Our Lord, of course not.

And, to clarify, if he was actually turning away women who really were immodestly dressed, then of course that was not wrong.

But turning away women whose skirts are not quite 8 inches below the knee?

Maybe he did not actually do that.

Elizabeth · « **Reply #96 on:** September 18, 2010, 11:57:28 AM »

It's too bad that we are not all able to whip up our own clothes. They used to teach sewing in school; of course that was perverted into being a demeaning task for girls.

Alexandria · « **Reply #97 on:** September 18, 2010, 12:34:39 PM »

Oh! Oh! Oh! PFT, I just love that 1910 dress!!! I would love to have a closet full of blouses like the top of that dress. The bottom is too form fitting, but I just love the top of it. My graduation dress from grade school was just like that...only (unfortunately) a lot shorter.

Alexandria · « **Reply #98 on:** September 18, 2010, 12:52:25 PM »

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Do I even have to say? Women never used to sit so sloppily 100 years ago, much less wear that trash.

Quite right. We live in the age of the slob, the age of the uncouth and the vulgar --- this is what our sins have wrought us. And yet some of us just cannot seem to direct the dots.

One more thing, it is not Mary-like for a woman to cross her legs. No "lady" (before the age of the slob) would ever cross her legs. It was considered bad manners. Just ask any elderly member of the Society of the Sacred Heart how they formed Catholic ladies in their boarding schools before the infamous VII hit the fan.

clare · « **Reply #99 on:** September 18, 2010, 01:08:31 PM »

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One more thing, it is not Mary-like for a woman to cross her legs. No "lady" (before the age of the slob) would ever cross her legs. It was considered bad manners.

And you get deep vein thrombosis too, apparently.