Confirmation Dress Code

[dconklin]

Of course, since it’s Texas, “no boots” was aimed at cowboy boots rather than combat boots.

No boots in TX? I am shocked! As a former Austinite, I hope that wasn’t in Austin. In fact, since a popular trademark for Austin is “Keep Austin weird”, I would think Army boots would be fine too.

I am on staff at parish that does not publish a dress code for sacraments.

 

[grasscutter]

Thanks, and they’re not actual combat boots. They’re just black boots that lace up, but I guess in this modern era they would be considered combat boots.

I seem to be in the minority but I can’t understand why these boots would be deemed unacceptable. Plus your family agrees that they look good with the dress you are wearing.

 

[pianistclare]

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"So I’m getting confirmed in a week and I’m wearing black combat boots with my dress."

So your original post read “combat boots”, Distinctly different from boots that lace up in front.



If you thought it was ok, and your mom gave up trying to please you, then why did you ask, and then take back what you originally said???

Never mind.
I’m out.

 

[Elizium23]

I think you should go with what your mother permits/encourages. She is the arbiter of fashion for you at your age, whatever that might be. However you might tell your mother that an anonymous middle-aged guy on the Internet thinks it’s not very ladylike to be wearing big black boots to one of the most important events in your life. I would think and hope that a young lady or young man would like to dress up semi-formal or formal with dress shoes. You would not go to the prom or homecoming in boots, if only for the fact they are horrible to dance in, so why be Confirmed in them?

 

[Phemie]

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"So I’m getting confirmed in a week and I’m wearing black combat boots with my dress."

So your original post read “combat boots”, Distinctly different from boots that lace up in front.

I spent 25 years as a military dependent. In my vocabulary “combat” boots are high black boots that lace up in front which can’t be shined, as compared to “work dress” boots, short black boots that lace up the front and on which you can apply a spit polish that will make them gleam (they kind of look like Doc Martens).

 

[KendraDZ1902]

When “combat boots” are mentioned as women’s fashion these are what I think:

pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=combat+boots+black+womens

I just don’t think of them as church shoes, but I wouldn’t wear them unless it was for a themed party or something.

 

[Aran_Houlihan]

At my confirmation I wore a suite and tie

 

[Brianmcg321]

He will is there’s a stated dress code that this would violate. A person presenting him/herself for the Sacrament of Confirmation is making a public statement that he/she is ready to complete initiation into the Church. Part of being a Christian is obedience to valid authority. Jesus most certainly would care if someone uses the Sacrament of Confirmation as a venue for public disobedience.

But, if there is no dress code, then the parish doesn’t care what is worn.

I asked him. He said “Nope, I could care less. There are more important things to worry about than shoes.”

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/003/384/buddy_christ.jpg

 

[babochka]

In my vocabulary “combat” boots are high black boots that lace up in front which can’t be shined, as compared to “work dress” boots, short black boots that lace up the front and on which you can apply a spit polish that will make them gleam (they kind of look like Doc Martens).

Must’ve been Air Force. In the Army, we shined our combat boots.

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[Phemie]

Must’ve been Air Force. In the Army, we shined our combat boots.

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t212/toddmart68/FinBoots2.jpg

He was Air Force.

Those are nice – and they shine more than my own shoes – but they look like a higher version of hubby’s work dress boots. His combat boots were made of pebbled leather.