Dress Code for Mass

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Hey, you are right! A good-looking man, well dressed, and confident will always get my attention! We all like to look at the beautiful people around us…men don’t wear makeup to enhance their looks…they are naturally handsome! I have to do some extra praying for my distraction! 😉
 
libbeylu said:
Hey, you are right! A good-looking man, well dressed, and confident will always get my attention! We all like to look at the beautiful people around us…men don’t wear makeup to enhance their looks…they are naturally handsome! I have to do some extra praying for my distraction! 😉
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The focus is disordered if it isto attention, for either sex, for what a person considers casual, formal, or work day or Mass day dress.
If we are dressing , it should never be to attract either positive or negative attention.

Just as men require custody of eyes and mind, so do women.
 
Oh my! Way to warm and comfortable. Between that and Father’s homilies, I’m guaranteed to get a good long nap at Mass. (Kidding :crazy_face:)
 
I was just expressing my opinion on men who dress exceptional…appropriately, professionally, etc. This would be positive attention, nothing sexual! Have you ever been in a meeting, or area where there were a lot of people and…in walks a well-groomed, beautiful person, man or woman, and everyone looks at them with admiration…? There are beautiful people out there…beauty on the inside as well as the outside.
 
libbeylu said:
I was just expressing my opinion on men who dress exceptional…appropriately, professionally, etc. This would be positive attention, nothing sexual! Have you ever been in a meeting, or area where there were a lot of people and…in walks a well-groomed, beautiful person, man or woman, and everyone looks at them with admiration…? There are beautiful people out there…beauty on the inside as well as the outside.
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I would not be admiring any man however well dressed or not because in all likelihood I am admiring someone’s husband
 
Do you think that admiration of a person’s looks–grooming, clothing, etc. must always have an element of lust in it? The poster said there was nothing sexual. I mean, for example I admire Alex Trebek’s and Pat Sajak’s grooming, the color of the suits they wear, how nicely they present themselves, but there is nothing sexual or lusting or envious, and I don’t think Mrs. Trebek or Mrs. Sajak would be at all offended by my admiration of their husbands’ sartorial splendors!
 
Yes! Hey if this person, he is a model, was at Mass one Sunday…I would have to leave Church and make an appointment for confession…(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
libbeylu said:
Yes! Hey if this person, he is a model, was at Mass one Sunday…I would have to leave Church and make an appointment for confession…(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
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Unless he was not dressed for his rather glamorous job. Let’s say he came in jeans and a polo shirt, with his hair unstyled, and wearing no make-up. Would you change your opinion of him as a person? Would he then lack respect and be unworthy of yours?

He’s not my type, by the way. I like my men a little less polished.
 
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Maybe it’s an age thing. Maybe modern women have become more ‘visually aroused’ the way men traditionally have been. I’m 63 and I remember in my teen years was when the bodice-rippers as opposed to Barbara Cartland and Emilie Loring really hit the stores. Soft porn. Bleah. Burt Reynolds in the 1974 Playgirl nude centerfold (I’m sorry but ick).

Whereas I can remember watching things like Marlo Thomas in That Girl (I’m a girl) and just admiring how well she dressed (ditto Mary Tyler Moore in her eponymous show), and admiring Jack Lord and James MacArthur who always wore neat suits --in Hawaii yet --with not a smidge of anything sexual. Maybe it’s the artistic eye --lots of drawing and knitting and designing, no I’m not professional but I enjoy it for me and my family–but I guess I pay more attention to the whole design aspect --color, texture, how it moves on the wearer, how they move, etc --and not so much to the person as ‘sexual being’!
 
I am not a young chick…no this model was chosen because of his natural good looks… in France. No my prayers during Mass are not interrupted by men. I was just having some fun! The most handsome man I recall…he is no longer on this earth…God Bless his soul…was John F. Kennedy, Jr.:smiling_face_with_three_hearts:
 
stpurl said:
Do you think that admiration of a person’s looks–grooming, clothing, etc. must always have an element of lust in it? The poster said there was nothing sexual. I mean, for example I admire Alex Trebek’s and Pat Sajak’s grooming, the color of the suits they wear, how nicely they present themselves, but there is nothing sexual or lusting or envious, and I don’t think Mrs. Trebek or Mrs. Sajak would be at all offended by my admiration of their husbands’ sartorial splendors!
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I did not say lust, I said admiration. Who should we admire, our creator, God.

We should not give admiration for human creatures. And certainly not for the opposite sex. Admiring the standard of dress or grooming is admiring a physical attribute.

And its also not regarding the true person. Look at Francis of Assisi, barefoot and hessian. He would be considered what in today’s society?
 
And this my dear is where you are not in control of your passions. Is it ok for a male to pick a photo of a model and state the same thing as you just have. Nope
 
GiftofMercy said:
And this my dear is where you are not in control of your passions. Is it ok for a male to pick a photo of a model and state the same thing as you just have. Nope
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@GiftofMercy

Why did you address @libbeylu as “my dear”?
 
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