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Tantum_ergo
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Shinobu, if jeans, shirts and sneakers are what you have, and what you wear to work, or to other celebrations, that is perfectly fine. For us women, and considering what is available both size-wise and style-wise, a woman coming in clean, pressed jeans and shirt and nice sneakers would be more appropriate than a woman in a tight slit skirt, bra-less halter, etc.
But if jeans etc. are what you feel “comfortable” in, but you wear more “formal” attire to work, or to other celebrations (and I don’t mean formal in the sense of ballgown, semi-formal gown, white gloves etc., I mean formal as in dress, suit, skirt, dressy pantsuit), then I think that wearing the jeans instead of the other attire might not be so appropriate. Why would you dress with more outward attention, care, and formality to a job than to Church?
For somebody else, we’d have to consider what THEY had available. This is not the fashion police stating that “Thou shalt wear dresses or else”, and throwing into the darkness some poor women who don’t have dresses, as though it were* only* the dress that mattered.
This is, instead, a matter of respect toward God. Whatever you have that is most suitable (no pun intended) is best. If all you have are jeans and a halter dress, get a shawl for the dress and go with the dress. If all you have are jeans and your wedding gown, clean and press the jeans and wear them with dignity. If all you have is jeans and your wedding gown, but it’s because you really, really, really like jeans, and you have the money to buy at least a pair of dress pants instead of another pair of jeans, buy the dress pants though and wear them, not because the jeans aren’t in themselves “good enough”, but because it would be a sacrifice for you (please, again, I’m not saying you personally, just for this example) to wear something outside your “preferred outfit” of jeans, jeans, jeans. IOW, treat God with a little more formality than you do anything else.
We CAN worship God in anything. We SHOULD worship Him inwardly with our cleanest soul --confession of sin, repentence, good deeds–and outwardly with our cleanest clothes (just remember, are you dressing for God’s worship or your OWN worship?)
But if jeans etc. are what you feel “comfortable” in, but you wear more “formal” attire to work, or to other celebrations (and I don’t mean formal in the sense of ballgown, semi-formal gown, white gloves etc., I mean formal as in dress, suit, skirt, dressy pantsuit), then I think that wearing the jeans instead of the other attire might not be so appropriate. Why would you dress with more outward attention, care, and formality to a job than to Church?
For somebody else, we’d have to consider what THEY had available. This is not the fashion police stating that “Thou shalt wear dresses or else”, and throwing into the darkness some poor women who don’t have dresses, as though it were* only* the dress that mattered.
This is, instead, a matter of respect toward God. Whatever you have that is most suitable (no pun intended) is best. If all you have are jeans and a halter dress, get a shawl for the dress and go with the dress. If all you have are jeans and your wedding gown, clean and press the jeans and wear them with dignity. If all you have is jeans and your wedding gown, but it’s because you really, really, really like jeans, and you have the money to buy at least a pair of dress pants instead of another pair of jeans, buy the dress pants though and wear them, not because the jeans aren’t in themselves “good enough”, but because it would be a sacrifice for you (please, again, I’m not saying you personally, just for this example) to wear something outside your “preferred outfit” of jeans, jeans, jeans. IOW, treat God with a little more formality than you do anything else.
We CAN worship God in anything. We SHOULD worship Him inwardly with our cleanest soul --confession of sin, repentence, good deeds–and outwardly with our cleanest clothes (just remember, are you dressing for God’s worship or your OWN worship?)
