Author Topic: What is Proper Attire to Wear to the Traditional Latin Mass? (Read 12566 times)

s2srea · « **Reply #20 on:** May 24, 2011, 07:26:10 PM »

So women shouldn't be dressed like this ad I just saw??!

:roll-laugh1:

s2srea · « **Reply #21 on:** May 24, 2011, 07:26:52 PM »

Matt- please don't be offended- I know you have no control over the advertisements. I just found it sort of ironic and amusing

Truth is Eternal · « **Reply #22 on:** May 24, 2011, 08:02:08 PM »

Today at work I made the mistake of telling someone I spent hours shopping for dress clothes for Church.

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Coworker: They can't tell you how to dress for Church.
Me: Yes they can.
Coworker: No they can't.
Me. We are not a come as you are Church but we are an amend your life Church.

After my last comment he did not respond.

Darcy · « **Reply #23 on:** August 11, 2011, 11:58:46 AM »

I went by what we wore prior to v2. We wore round lace juliet style caps. I don't know the correct name for them. Or cage veils made out of netting attached to a headband in any color. Young girls did not wear black anything.

I felt that wearing a black chapel veil would be for mourning or during lent.
I didn't know that about the married vs unmarried.

I guess it sounds like it is up to the particular "parish" chapel to set the norms, as there is really no centralized agreements for Traditional Catholics.
In trying to come to agreement, how far back should we go? I am stuck in the 1940s-50s.

I feel like a stranger in a strangeland.

MrsZ · « **Reply #24 on:** August 11, 2011, 02:19:01 PM »

It's really difficult to find dresses / skirts, or other types of clothes that don't incorporate black in there somewhere. Sometimes I think it's because without consciously realizing it, there's a pervading sense among the designers that we are in fact, "in mourning" and black represents our "culture of death."

I, too, dislike black on children and young women. The veil thing is awkward however, for me, because especially at the "beginning to be a burden to her husband age" of over 40, black is very harsh against my face ... I felt like an 80 year old Italian widow! But I guess that's vanity, isn't it? :stare:

I think I would concur that you should go ahead and take your fashion cues from the women at your parish. Try to blend in as best you can with regard to color and style, while staying modest. I've found that dressing from another time or being too frilly or feminine in style is a barrier between developing friendships with the women at my parish (and truthfully, we're stuck at Novus Ordo land) so if you have a Traditional Latin Parish, thanks be to God and be happy!