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Offline Fanny

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Re: Why are high-heels bad??
« Reply #75 on: March 19, 2018, 01:16:55 AM »
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    • Quote from: Catman on March 18, 2018, 05:40:39 PM
    Who is off topic here? The thread is about “high heels” not “prostitute shoes.”
    One and the same.
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    Re: Why are high-heels bad??
    « Reply #76 on: March 19, 2018, 01:17:27 AM »
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    • Quote from: Riddlsnthdrk on March 18, 2018, 07:52:34 PM
    Since we are on the subject of items that accentuate body parts...what are y'alls thoughts on makeup?? Its another accentuating item, right? Is makeup immodest too? Just wondering your thoughts...
    Would our Blessed Mother wear it?
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    Re: Why are high-heels bad??
    « Reply #77 on: March 19, 2018, 01:18:22 AM »
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    • Quote from: Riddlsnthdrk on March 18, 2018, 07:57:43 PM
    And what about bras?? Another accentuating item...would a push-up be immodest too, even if a woman was dressed modestly? Sorry for all the annoying questions....
    Would our Blessed Mother wear it?
    Also, it is time to take it into the "women only" forum...
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    Re: Why are high-heels bad??
    « Reply #78 on: March 19, 2018, 11:59:16 AM »
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    • Quote from: Fanny on March 19, 2018, 01:17:27 AM
    Would our Blessed Mother wear it?

    No, Our Lady would not wear makeup.  But, of course, she was so beautiful all the time that makeup would only have diminished her beauty.

    Nevertheless, even if Our Lady would not, in her perfection, do something, that doesn't make everything she wouldn't do necessarily bad or illicit or sinful.

    I don't think that wearing a relatively-light amount of makeup (not the amount that makes women look like prostitutes or clowns) is any more wrong or harmful than taking a shower, brushing your hair, washing your face with soap, putting on deodorant, or wearing some nice clothes.  Attending to one's appearance isn't intrinsically bad ... although it CAN easily cross over the line to becoming vanity.
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    Re: Why are high-heels bad??
    « Reply #79 on: March 19, 2018, 12:01:15 PM »
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    • Quote from: Ladislaus on March 19, 2018, 11:59:16 AM
    No, Our Lady would not wear makeup.  But, of course, she was so beautiful all the time that makeup would only have diminished her beauty.

    Nevertheless, even if Our Lady would not, in her perfection, do something, that doesn't make everything she wouldn't do necessarily bad or illicit or sinful.

    I don't think that wearing a relatively-light amount of makeup (not the amount that makes women look like prostitutes or clowns) is any more wrong or harmful than taking a shower, brushing your hair, washing your face with soap, putting on deodorant, or wearing some nice clothes.  Attending to one's appearance isn't intrinsically bad ... although it CAN easily cross over the line to becoming vanity.

    Agree 100%

    I would go further and say that attending to one's appearance is actually an act of charity towards our neighbor. Not only we are always in the presence of God and Our Guardian Angels, we owe respect and consideration to our neighbor, who has to look and interact with us. We need to keep in mind at all times that our bodies are temples of the Holy Ghost and keep them as such, to the best of our ability.
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    Re: Why are high-heels bad??
    « Reply #80 on: March 19, 2018, 05:36:12 PM »
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    • High heels are not bad, they are just a fashion choice.  They are just a pair of shoes. 

    There are wretched women in high heels but it's not the heels that made them wretched.  8)
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    Re: Why are high-heels bad??
    « Reply #81 on: March 19, 2018, 05:50:02 PM »
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    • Quote from: Ladislaus on March 19, 2018, 11:59:16 AM
    No, Our Lady would not wear makeup.  But, of course, she was so beautiful all the time that makeup would only have diminished her beauty.

    Nevertheless, even if Our Lady would not, in her perfection, do something, that doesn't make everything she wouldn't do necessarily bad or illicit or sinful.

    I don't think that wearing a relatively-light amount of makeup (not the amount that makes women look like prostitutes or clowns) is any more wrong or harmful than taking a shower, brushing your hair, washing your face with soap, putting on deodorant, or wearing some nice clothes.  Attending to one's appearance isn't intrinsically bad ... although it CAN easily cross over the line to becoming vanity.
    I agree with fanny.
    Wearing make up is not attending to ones appearance similar to brushing your teeth. One is vanity.  The other is cleanliness.
    It is not matter of opinion.
    Our Lady is the example by which ALL women should follow.
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    Re: Why are high-heels bad??
    « Reply #82 on: March 19, 2018, 09:25:22 PM »
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    Re: Why are high-heels bad??
    « Reply #83 on: March 19, 2018, 09:49:00 PM »
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    • Quote from: Catman on March 19, 2018, 09:25:22 PM
    Hardly.
    Let me know when you're 60 or 70 if you still feel the same way.
    Sometimes elders ARE wiser.
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    Re: Why are high-heels bad??
    « Reply #84 on: March 20, 2018, 02:01:45 AM »
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    • High-heels are truly the attire of whores, including the kind of shoes of those Spanish girls in the picture of Cantarella.

    I am ashamed and grieved to see women wearing it in the SSPX chapel where I attend Mass. Not to speak about the length of the dress...
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    Re: Why are high-heels bad??
    « Reply #85 on: March 22, 2018, 11:35:57 AM »
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    • Quote from: Fanny on March 19, 2018, 01:16:55 AM
    One and the same.
    Only in your pharisiacal opinion. 
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    Re: Why are high-heels bad??
    « Reply #86 on: March 22, 2018, 11:59:49 AM »
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    • Quote from: Catman on March 22, 2018, 11:35:57 AM
    Only in your pharisiacal opinion.
    Do you realize that we are talking specifically about the shoes pictured in the OP and shoes listed in the Googlle search "prostitute shoes"? We are not talking about just any "high heels" shoes, which could be 2" - 3" heels.

    You are new and you already have only 3 positives / and you have 20 negatives on CI. Are you Catholic? Tell us about yourself.
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    Re: Why are high-heels bad??
    « Reply #87 on: March 22, 2018, 12:07:29 PM »
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    • Women who are short in stature often do wear high heels, because they feel that they look more normal. So for them, it's not always an issue of immodesty, but maybe more of an issue of vanity.

    Women today don't realize, much of the time, that their choices of attire are not modest. We can, however, offer an example to them of what modesty looks like, especially when attending Mass.
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    Re: Why are high-heels bad??
    « Reply #88 on: March 22, 2018, 12:42:46 PM »
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    • Quote from: Meg on March 22, 2018, 12:07:29 PM
    Women who are short in stature often do wear high heels, because they feel that they look more normal. So for them, it's not always an issue of immodesty, but maybe more of an issue of vanity.
    My Mom was 5' tall. She wore high heels when she dressed up,  and she did other tricks to look taller (like vertical stripes make you look taller, horizontal make you look shorter, high hair, one color tops and bottoms make you look taller, different color tops and bottoms make you look shorter). HOWEVER, she wore regular high heels, about 3" high, she did not wear prostitute shoes, platform stilettos.

    When I was about 23, young girls started wearing prostitute shoes, so the fashion is back in vogue now, 40+ years later. In a very short time thereafter, the men started wearing platform shoes with heels as high as the women, and they covered them with bellbottoms. I was in the world, going to bars and such, so I bought a pair, I wore them one night and returned them. If a fight broke out (very common in nightclubs) I'd be at a great disadvantage wearing those shoes. It was like walking on stilts. Besides, they were not masculine attire. I bought myself some lizard skin cowboy boots for the duration of the women's prostitute shoes fashion timeline.
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    Re: Why are high-heels bad??
    « Reply #89 on: March 22, 2018, 12:57:54 PM »
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    • Quote from: Last Tradhican on March 22, 2018, 12:42:46 PM
    My Mom was 5' tall. She wore high heels when she dressed up,  and she did other tricks to look taller (like vertical stripes make you look taller, horizontal make you look shorter, high hair, one color tops and bottoms make you look taller, different color tops and bottoms make you look shorter). HOWEVER, she wore regular high heels, about 3" high, she did not wear prostitute shoes, platform stilettos.

    When I was about 23, young girls started wearing prostitute shoes, so the fashion is back in vogue now, 40+ years later. In a very short time thereafter, the men started wearing platform shoes with heels as high as the women, and they covered them with bellbottoms. I was in the world, going to bars and such, so I bought a pair, I wore them one night and returned them. If a fight broke out (very common in nightclubs) I'd be at a great disadvantage wearing those shoes. It was like walking on stilts. Besides, they were not masculine attire. I bought myself some lizard skin cowboy boots for the duration of the women's prostitute shoes fashion timeline.

    I see what you're saying, but how many women actually wear heels that are taller than three inches? I don't recall ever seeing these so-called prostitute heels at Mass, at either the SSPX or FSSP. If you've seen them worn by a lot of women at the SSPX, then that must be some kind of anomaly.

    I actually think that a three-inch heel is quite tall, but I can understand how short women would want to wear that length.

    Yes, extremely high heels are likely to be not only uncomfortable, but difficult to walk in. 
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