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Marinakeer
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IMO leggings are fine if they’re worn with a hoodie or long shirt that covers your butt.
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Sarcelle
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Very true.
I think you need legs shaped like chopsticks to pull this off.
I think you need legs shaped like chopsticks to pull this off.
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Sarcelle
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Leggings with long tunic tops and boots are good for autumn.
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TC3033
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Tis_Bearself
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It doesn’t and outside of this forum and a few traditional parishes, almost nobody cares.
As we have suggested to you before, please go out in the world and meet some actual Catholics, and do not take everything you read on this forum as ordinary Catholics speaking, because it isn’t.
Also please stop regarding Catholicism as something particularly stranger or more unusual than every other mainstream religion out there. Apart from our dogmatic teachings, culturally with respect to how we act in society we’re pretty much the same as Episcopalians and Presbyterians, which I presume you have met.
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Peeps
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I apologize for misinterpreting your post.
I disagree that people of any weight look like stuffed sausages in leggings–it depends on the leggings. Certainly a thin fabric will show every dimple, etc. But the leggings I wear do not.
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Allie1
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You are part of the 1% who know how to chose and wear leggings so that it flatters. Unfortunately, I’ve seen too many people who wear leggings in ways that is unflattering to their bodies, and just look gross
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Soubirous1
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there should be training and a license for leggings just like concealed carry.
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DeniseNY
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May I ask where you live? Perhaps it’s not the leggings that are the problem?
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Allie1
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redbetta
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I suggest you go meet Catholics outside the Internet.
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TC3033
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Allie1
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Explain what?
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c4csp
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It seems like the problem is vanity. There wouldn’t be a problem with leggings if they were limited to the activities they have always been used for. However, they became a fashion statement and women seem to wear them to for attention. So the vanity is a problem and it is immodest.
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Xantippe
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Years ago, I was pregnant during the low-rise pants craze and wound up owning a couple pairs of low-rise maternity jeans, because that’s all there was.
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EmilyAlexandra
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Thanks. I have been to my local Catholic parish church several times, although it’s not possible to really meet people at the moment. It may be different in other parts of the world, but here we are still strictly 2 metres apart outdoors and 1 metre apart indoors, basically achieved by using only every other pew and as far as possible having one household per pew or two households at opposite ends of a pew. Everyone is in a face mask. It’s a one-way system for entry an exit and there is no moving around the church once seated in order of arrival.
The people I have seen at the parish church look very much like the people I see locally, except that they are mostly Polish (and Lithuanian?) and African, apart from the older people, who seem mostly to be Irish. A lot of the women wear trousers. I don’t think I’ve seen a single woman wearing a head-covering.
I guess one thing I’m aware of is that I have also read criticism of categories such as cafeteria Catholics, Catholics in name only, Sunday Catholics, lukewarm Catholics, and people who have been poorly catechised, especially in Europe and especially in so-called “Novus Ordo” parishes. So I guess when I see women who are clearly not observing the Mary-like standards of modesty, I have somewhere in my mind that perhaps these are the Catholics I’ve read disparaging things about.
I assume there must also be cultural factors and factors to do with social class. What is normal for somebody from Poland will not be the same as what is normal for somebody from Nigeria. I also get the impression that proponents of the Traditional Latin Mass are drawn from an intellectual and social elite, so it is not surprising that their norms of dress are the formal styles of universities, the professions, and the upper classes.
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Peeps
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Most women wear them for comfort.
My only problem with my leggings is that they have no pockets for my lip gloss and phone (I use a flip phone–tiny!). BUT…there are leggings with pockets, and my daughter keeps telling me to buy some!
C’mon now, MOST women dress for attention–they want to make a good impression. For Christian women, of course that should mean “modest” dress, but please don’t try to tell me that Christian women (or ANY woman) dresses in such a way that she will fade into the background and no one will notice her at all. That’s not how God made us. We WANT to feel pretty and organized and wear colors that makes us look our best and styles that emphasize whatever is good about our bodies.
That’s probably one reason why women that don’t have “chopstick legs” are wearing leggings–many women are sick and tired of being told that they are “fat” with the implication that they are unattractive. Many women recognize that historically, “curves” are beautiful, and that much of what is now considered “fat” is simply a womanly body with curves and bumps and bulges! Women’s bodies are “soft”–that’s the way God made us!
I see nothing wrong at all with wearing clothing that allows others to see our curves and our “softness”- we aren’t men with rock-hard muscles and straight lines. We DO look like “sausages,” while men look more like beef jerky sticks (they’re called “Slim Jims” in my part of the U.S.).
And really now–some women try leggings for awhile and eventually decide on their own that they really aren’t that comfortable after all. Give other women a break and the freedom to work out their own “fashion sense.” Don’t assume that they are trying to be sex goddesses. Assume the best of people.
And keep in mind that there are leggings with a denser, WARMER material, probably designed by people who DON"t live on the West Coast, but in the Great Frozen North (I’m close to that in Northern Illinois)! Buy THOSE leggings–I do and they look very nice, thank you very much.
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I’m sorry these forums have made you feel that way. Please remember that the views expressed here do not always reflect the actual teachings of the Church. The Church doesn’t dictate how women dress the same way Islam does.
Nope, these are not the Catholics you’ve read disparaging things about.
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