Modest slacks indicate a modest woman.

Modest slacks indicate a modest woman.

I know it is always hard to accept that the Church has never condemned woman for wearing pants. It just hasn't.  St. Thomas talks about woman wearing men's fashion trends. Pants are not just for men. They aren't.  There are woman's slacks, that is, slacks cut and styled for woman specifically. There just are. And many are very modest, they just are.

The Church has never demanded a dress code for one to be forgiven their sins, just true remorse and firm purpose of amendment. One would have to question Padre Pio's motives for doing so.  An old Italian man from Naples told me that when he was a boy he and his friends hopped on a train to Fogia to go to confession.  Theh waited in line for most of the day. Finally the Padre entered the church. He walked by hundreds of people without saying a word.  He stopped in front of him and his friends and scold them saying "Go home and conf
ess to your parish priest. I am no circus side show "  he knew their true heart. Perhaps it was the disposition of these woman rather than the clothes on their body.

This point is mute so I will no longer be replying but the bottom line is woman can lead good and holy lives wearing modest slacks just as they can wearing a skirt or dress. The confession lines at every traditional church I've been to is full of woman wearing long skirts....hhhmmmm????

Quote from: Ekim

I don't EVER remember reading anything from ABL or the pre Vatican II church condemning pants on woman.  Modesty in dress, yes.  But no official church statement saying that woman must never ware pants.

Ekim, I 'll try and look it up, but there was a very well regarded Cardinal (Siri, I believe), who wrote a rather excellent epistle to his entire Diocese in Italy on why women
should not wear men's clothes--specifically the pants. While I don't recall whether he mentioned it or not, the "uni-sexing" of the garments has been a communist/ illuminati gambit for a long, long time. To get the females to think they can do all the men's jobs (see the "police female" in the picture), and brainwash the males into paying attention to their "feminine side",
helped grease the slide into open lesbianism and ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity-- which was against the law throughout the country.
  Bishop Williamson, of course, has also preached on this (and, of course, has been attacked for it). Well trained Protestant preachers
( like Pastor Pete) have also spoken extensively on the mistake of women to dress as men; and vice versa; and the prohibitions against the same issued by God in the bible.

Notification Concerning Men's Dress Worn by Women, Cardinal Siri (1960):

"The first signs of our late arriving spring indicate this year a certain increase in the use of men's dress by girls and women, even mothers of families. Up until 1959, in Genoa, such dress usually meant the person was a tourist, but now there seems to be a significant number of girls and women from Genoa itself who are choosing, at least on pleasure trips, to wear men's dress [men's trousers - that is, slacks/pants]. The spreading of this behavior obliges us to give serious consideration to the subject, and we ask those to whom this Notification is addressed to kindly give this problem all the attention it deserves, as befits those aware of being answerable to God... The wearing of men's dress by women affects firstly the woman herself, by changing the feminine psychology proper to women; secondly, it affects the woman as wife of her husband, by tending to vitiate relationships between the sexes; thirdly, it affects the woman as mother of her children by harming her dignity in her children's eyes... In truth, the motive impelling women to wear men's dress is always that of imitating, nay, of competing with the man who is considered stronger, less tied down, more independent. This motivation shows clearly that male dress is the visible aid to bringing about a mental attitude of being 'like a man'. Secondly, ever since men have been men, the clothing a person wears conditions, determines and modifies that person's gestures, attitudes and behavior, such that from merely being worn outside, clothing comes to impose a particular frame of mind inside. Then let us add that a woman wearing men's dress always more or less indicates her reacting to her femininity as though it were inferior [to masculinity] when in fact it is only diverse. The perversion of her psychology is clearly evident. These reasons, summing up many more, are enough to warn us how wrongly women are made to think by the wearing of men's dress... Experience teaches us that when woman is de-feminized, defenses are undermined and weakness increases... The changing of feminine psychology does fundamental and - in the long run - irreparable damage to the family, to conjugal fidelity, to human affections and to human society. True, the effects of wearing unsuitable dress are not all to be seen within a short time. But one must think of what is being slowly and insidiously worn down, torn apart, perverted. Is any satisfying reciprocity between husband and wife imaginable, if feminine psychology be changed? Or is any true education of children imaginable, which is so delicate in its procedure, so woven of imponderable factors in which the mother's intuition and instinct play the decisive part in those tender years? What will these women be able to give their children when they will so long have worn trousers that their self-esteem is determined more by their competing with the men than by their functioning as women? Why, we ask, ever since men have been men - or rather since they became civilized - why have men in all times and places been irresistibly borne to differentiate and divide the functions of the two sexes? Do we not have here strict testimony to the recognition by all mankind of a truth and a law above man? To sum up, wherever women wear men's dress, it is be considered a factor, over the long term, in disintegrating human order."