Modest summer clothing?

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Also, i think it was started by the guys in the first place. I am referring to the very baggy jeans that hang down so low and are covered by long baggy tee shirts.
Jeans hanging low enough to show one’s underwear was a signal for “sexual use” within prisons.
Guys on the outside picked it up cause it was “thug”
 
Jeans hanging low enough to show one’s underwear was a signal for “sexual use” within prisons.
Guys on the outside picked it up cause it was “thug”
ohhh, well there ya go :rolleyes:

ok so maybe it would be better baggy as in lumber jack or farmer, work guy kind of thing?

wow, so complicated, clothing is 🤷

myself I guess they will bury me in jeans and a U2 tshirt 😃

and possibly a Harley shirt worn over.

I dont think Im sloppy but hopefully not a canditate for What not to Wear.

Joseph you sound like you probably dress just fine.
 
In my purely secular opinion I think that almost any shirts that don’t show the tummy or cleavage and aren’t tight enough to show bra straps and such are modest and pretty much and pants/capris/shorts that aren’t skin tight and long enough to cover the rear completely when sitting or bending over are modest. Of course those rules can be bent slightly depending on body type…no one wants to see a super obese person wearing mid thigh length shorts and a tank top. I’m not saying people who are in really good shape can skimp on the clothes…I don’t think anyone whose mind isn’t in the gutter wants to see that either but when people don’t dress for their body type things can get…scary :eek:
 
Outside of the arena of church functions, two years ago we went to Nassau, Bahamas for a week. My wife (why?) forgot to bring a swimsuit. Simple-go shopping, right? We did, and it was either bikinis that left little to the imagination (wife will not wear a bikini, and she’s got a nice figure!🙂 ), or size 12-16 tents. -Wife is 5’0 105 lbs. So, sadly, she was just unable to swim-we went to resort shops, and every place that sold swimwear in Nassau.
 
Physical beauty is a two edged sword. And I believe for a catholic it is a cross to bear. Thank God I dont have it.

For no matter what you wear, physical beauty can’t be hidden. In saying that, if one wears clothes that will swing heads… Every head that swings you are in a direct way responsible. So when he is judged for lust, you will also be judged for giving him a reason to lust.

That is not saying one should wear potatoe sacks, but if you dress modestly, you have not dressed to infulence others. If they still “head turn”, it will be in appreciation of your beauty, which is not a sin.
 
“A dress cannot be called decent which is cut deeper than two fingers breadth under the pit of the throat; which does not cover the arms at least to the elbows; and scarcely reaches a bit beyond the knees. Furthermore, dresses of transparent materials are improper.”
The Cardinal Vicar of Pius XII

The words of the Blessed Mother at Fatima to Bl.Jacinta Marto.
Blessed Jacinta Marto:
“the sins which bring most souls to hell are the sins of the flesh. Certain fashions are going to be introduced which will offend Our Lord very much… the Church has no fashions; Our Lord is always the same…”

From MODESTY published by Eternal Life
902 Stephan Foster Avenue
Bardstown, KY 40004:
To say that “…modesty is a matter of custom” is just as wrong as to say that, “…honesty is a matter of custom.”

If wearing clothing which did not reach below the knees and to the elbows was every immodest, it is immodest now, especially during the Holy Sacrifice of Mass.
 
Iccy, I love what you said about true beauty!

I’ve had trouble explaining it to some people. I’m told I’m rather pretty and some people think because of that I should dress “in fashion” more often. I don’t dress like an old maid, but I do prefer to keep above the knees covered and try not to wear tops that make it look like my boobs are going to fall out any moment. One of my favorite things to wear is long skirts, especially the tiered kind, and I feel more pretty dressed like that then I ever did when I tried the shorter stuff. But going back to the point, I want my personality to shine, and my true beauty. When a man shows interest in me, I want it to be because he finds me interesting or such, not because I’m driving him into a state of lust.

Hope I explained that well. 🙂
 
Iccy, I love what you said about true beauty!

I’ve had trouble explaining it to some people. I’m told I’m rather pretty and some people think because of that I should dress “in fashion” more often. I don’t dress like an old maid, but I do prefer to keep above the knees covered and try not to wear tops that make it look like my boobs are going to fall out any moment. One of my favorite things to wear is long skirts, especially the tiered kind, and I feel more pretty dressed like that then I ever did when I tried the shorter stuff. But going back to the point, I want my personality to shine, and my true beauty. When a man shows interest in me, I want it to be because he finds me interesting or such, not because I’m driving him into a state of lust.

Hope I explained that well. 🙂
As a man, I always appreciate the beauty of women. But being a man, I am also subject to temptation. I greatly appreciate it when a women wears clothing which help show her natural beauty, and the beauty all women have, without prompting lust.
 
A thin woman can rarely find decent clothing. i live in the Western US, which means what we consider conservative clothing would be thought of as stripper clothes in the central and eastern parts of America. But when I go to buy a dress in a small size, they all have necklines around the navel, or hems where the waist belongs, or slits on both sides so wide they not only don’t close, they show almost as much as they hise, or words such as “Sexy” across them in sequins, or obscene cutouts. I tried complaining to some mostly largish women about this and they didn’t get my point. I guess only a woman who is stared at all the time knows how disgusting and humiliating it is and what it’s like not to be allowed any clothes except during winter.:mad:
 
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