I agree with the above post, and want to add as well to guard against the more subtle but present judgmental attitude on those who ‘dress up’, to include head coverings.
While we have many threads which have poignant and heart tugging requests to ‘not look down’ on those who are dressed in ‘ragged attire’, and even to ‘be grateful the person is there’ even if it is a man wearing tight shirts with profanity messages, or a woman wearing short shorts and a halter top, the sneers come out for “men in suits”, ‘women in longer dresses’, “women in headcoverings’. Because while the other people “have no other clothes”, “are wearing clean and decent clothing’, “are at least there”, ‘may be attired in clothes that are appropriate for where they live’, etc. etc., if a man puts on a suit he’s a rigid jerk trying to make other men look bad, or he’s a Pharisee just trying to make himself look ‘more pious’. Ditto to the woman wearing a dress, who is all that plus a ‘traitor to other women’. Especially if she wears that emblem of male chauvinism, the head covering! She is only out to look ‘better than anybody else’. She’s a slave to ‘pretty mantillas’, not to GOD, who would never ‘demand’ such a thing.
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So, a little less judgmentalism for attire that is deemed improper because the person judging wouldn’t wear it himself or herself would be nice. And nowadays, it’s the suit/dress/head covering that people would not wear —it is far more likely any given Sunday that John or Jane would tug on the sweatsuit, or John would pop on the sports hoodie and the low slung jeans, or Jane would take out the shorts because hey, it’s hot, and after Mass we’re headed out to the beach and don’t have time to change and after all, shouldn’t we be grateful they went to Mass? Well yep, we are grateful. And hopefully we’re equally grateful that Jim (in his suit) and Jean (in her longer dress and hat) are there as well!
