Well Mary, Jesus came for all time. He didn’t use computers either, but we are, aren’t we? Jesus didn’t have the technology to develop food out of things like seaweed, and to desalinate salt water into fresh, but we do. Should we insist people subsist on seaweed ‘fresh from the ocean’ and leave the salt waters salt because that was the way “in Jesus’ time?”
Jesus wore robes. You want men to wear robes? And some of those robes were fairly ornate. Jesus’ robe may (or may not) have had embroidery or other decorations (it may have had tassels, for example) but it was so finely woven that Scripture tells us that instead of being torn and sold for rags, which was the fate of clothing worn by condemned criminals, the soldiers ‘tossed dice’ for it. Not something they would have done for some old ‘plain thing’.
Actually King David did wear ointments, oils, perfumes, and fine linen clothing (if you have any idea of how difficult it is to turn flax into linen, you’ll know this wasn’t just getting some 'cheap stuff), and it also was dyed (another costly process), as well as jewelry.
And Jesus Himself had his feet anointed with costly perfumes/lotion.
A lot of our prejudices and biases come from our personal likes and dislikes. Many women dislike beards on men, but 150 years ago, American and European men were full-bearded and mustachioed as a matter of course; a clean-shaven man looked ‘childish’ to men AND to women. And we’ve gone through periods of time where men were ‘hairier’. In fact, we’re in a mini-hairy period right now; look at the men on commercials, media, etc., with that ‘5 o’clock shadow look’, not a full beard but stubble all over.
We need to stop thinking of a ‘look’ or a ‘style’ as a product of our current views only and take a long view.
Kingship, whether it goes back to the first tribal leader among Neanderthals or the earliest humans, whether it’s a leader of a primitive tribe in New Guinea today or the Queen of England, involves a ‘setting apart’ of the person. So just because, as an ‘egalitarian’ citizen of the U.S., averse to any ‘trappings of royalty’, and living in AD 2018, one might personally think, "Any sign or symbol that I think is old-fashioned, girly, ornate, expensive, etc. isn’t something Jesus would wear, one needs to remember that Jesus isn’t just the 'kindly soul in Heaven in AD 2018 who would only do, or look like, the best possible U.S. citizen of AD 2018, i.e. a man wearing recycled, inexpensive clothing, absolutely no trappings to set Him apart because He’s giving everything away to everybody else while renewing the planet.
