Pants for women?

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Psychic said:
Are TC girls allowed to wear pants?
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Isn’t keeping pictures of girls adultry?
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By TC I assume you mean “traditional Catholic?” Yes, Catholic girls can wear pants. Is this a serious question?

I cannot access your link (behind a firewall that blocks this site) so all I can do is respond to your second question based on the question itself. Having a picture of a female is not adultry. Lusting after a female (in a photo or otherwise) IS however a grave sin.
 
Tietjen said:
By TC I assume you mean “traditional Catholic?” Yes, Catholic girls can wear pants. Is this a serious question?

I cannot access your link (behind a firewall that blocks this site) so all I can do is respond to your second question based on the question itself. Having a picture of a female is not adultry. Lusting after a female (in a photo or otherwise) IS however a grave sin.
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Aren’t pants a man’s wearing?
 
AJV said:
There are some traditional Catholics (and clergy) who disapprove of women wearing pants, so its an entirely serious question.
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There are some traditional Catholics (and Clergy) who disapprove of Vatican II. But the OP’s question relates to non-opinionated truth as opposed to individual ideas and opinions. The question was whether girls are “allowed” to wear pants.
Answer - Yes.
 
Psychic said:
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By whose definition? In what era? In what culture? Country? etc. Our Church is the Universal Church. No woman (that I am aware of) in today’s American society has been denied participation in the Church based on whether she wears pants as opposed to a dress or skirt. And no man in Scotland (to my knowledge) has been denied participation in the Church based on whether he wears a kilt as opposed to pants. Having searched the CCC, I found no requirement for women to refrain from wearing pants.
 
And no man in Scotland (to my knowledge) has been denied participation in the Church based on whether he wears a kilt as opposed to pants
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Katherine Hepburn turned heads back in the 1930s when she began to wear pants in movies (that upset the culture of the day). By WWII women were wearing pants unselfconsciously (I have a picture of my mother in pants in 1944). By 1963 or so women abandoned the practice of wearing formal hats in church and began wearing mantillas and chapel veils. By 1965 pants began to be worn. By 1970 women began to attend Mass without hat nor with mantilla or chapel veil.

It is a rare sight to see a woman with a hat or veil at my cathedral parish, nor is it unusual to see a woman in pants.

I would have no problems wearing a kilt. In our climate here it would be a godsend - like wearing shorts which I wear a lot during the summer but never to Mass. And, btw, when I was a child men wore dress pants and short sleeved shirts to Mass during the summer. It was far too hot to do otherwise.
 
I think it depends on the context, like everything else. I wear diffrent things depending on the setting.

As an equestrian, I wear tight fitting pants with knee patches that would never, ever see the inside of a church. By the same token, my church clothes would be ruined if I rode and bathed a horse in them.

I rarely wear pants outside of riding activities (I honestly don’t think they flatter me much)…but it isn’t really a moral issue to me. It’s more what I find comfortable and like the look of…though I would not wear jeans to Mass.
 
I don’t wear pants anymore, I’m an NO Church.
I quit a couple months ago and like my skirts and dresses I actually feel like a have a new found freedom. 🙂

It has helped my self esteem. 👍
 
“Men’s clothing” and “women’s clothing” are defined by the time and place. Do traditional Catholic men wear what Father Abraham did? Do you see traditional priests dressed like the apostles? Clothing styles, for both men and women, change over time. The pants worn by women today are designed for women, and deemed “women’s clothing” by this culture; thus, I see no grounds whatsoever for declaring their use immoral. Whether or not some women wear pants that are too tight is another question…
 
Psychic said:
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Sez who? Did Paul wear pants? Did Jesus wear pants? Some say one can date the the onset of the decline of a civilization from the point when men begin wearing pants. Naturally, as a person of Anglo-Saxon heritage I would disagree.

Seems to me that who wears pants is a perfect example of “traditions of men.”

JSA+
 
Before I started going to the Traditional Latin Mass last year I called and visited with the priest about proper clothing. I asked specifically if i would be allowed to wears nice pants. I am almost 60 and haven’t worn a dress for 30 years…he said it was fine. (I have also noticed other women doing the same.
 
I don’t mean to side bar, but what does our attire have to do with our belief and devotion to God? Clearly, respect is an issue, but will I burn in Hell with a murderer because I feel more comfortable in pants than in a skirt or dress? Does God look down and say “That pitiful woman that I Created! Does she really think she is worthy of wearing Pants?!?!?!?”
 
blackrobe said:
Sez who? Did Paul wear pants? Did Jesus wear pants? Some say one can date the the onset of the decline of a civilization from the point when men begin wearing pants. Naturally, as a person of Anglo-Saxon heritage I would disagree.

Seems to me that who wears pants is a perfect example of “traditions of men.”

JSA+
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No, neither Jesus nor St. Paul wore pants but up in Celtic and Germanic Europe at the time, pants were the norm for men. Sassenachs just followed their Germanic forebears traditions.😃
 
rebeccal said:
I don’t mean to side bar, but what does our attire have to do with our belief and devotion to God? Clearly, respect is an issue, but will I burn in Hell with a murderer because I feel more comfortable in pants than in a skirt or dress? Does God look down and say “That pitiful woman that I Created! Does she really think she is worthy of wearing Pants?!?!?!?”
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Like I pointed out, some folks are remembering the societal norms of 1960s America when I was a kid. In 1960, my mother and my sister both wore dresses and hats every Sunday. By 1965, my mother and my sister still wore dresses but had adopted mantillas and chapel veils. By 1970 - head coverings for women were rare and pants were certainly acceptable.

Some of the EF adherents are a bit zealous - the world as it ought to be rather than the world as it was.
 
I don’t prefer pants. In fact I can’t remember ever wearing pants to Mass. Gauchos occasionally. Never pants. Why? I don’t like them. It’s not a religious thing for me. I do agree with the “bring your best to God” mentality though, which has been used when determining how to dress for Mass. Certainly dress nice. If you have something nice to wear. The problem with our culture is that people often don’t OWN nice things to wear anymore. God will never condemn someone for not being able to afford nice Church duds.

This topic was addressed in Ask an Apologist a couple months ago. Here’s his response.

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=196524
 
Psychic said:
Are TC girls allowed to wear pants?
And:
flickr.com/photos/inquisitorgeneralis/47822495/
Isn’t keeping pictures of girls adultry?
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hmmmmmmm.

Nearly all women in China wear pants as a regular form of dress.

Many women in the Indian subcontinent wear pants too.

Men in Sri Lanka wear skirts, as do traditional Scottish men.

I wonder what sort of “tradition” some TC Catholics are building.
Is their notion of the universal Church that totally Western???
 
I do not think that women should wear pants without wearing some sort of dress over it (like this)http://www.wholesale-beadedjewelry.com/image/salwar_kameez/CFSK-6.jpg - not, for the most part, because they are immodest, or even because they are male garments, but because women have historically been disrespected more than men. Robes, not pants, have historically been worn by people in respected roles - judges, priests, royalty.
 
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