Wearing Jeans at Mass

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I think that the only caveat to wearing jeans is the latest fad called “low-rise”. When I buy a pair of jeans, I make sure that they aren’t low-rise and that they would be fitting enough to wear to Mass (on casual Friday, and even for the Anticipated Sunday Vigil Mass). In fact, Stein-Mart carries lot of high quality jeans that are neither low-rise nor tawdry looking (and for a great price).

Unfortunately, those kids who do shop at bebe, guess? or the Express don’t have an option for regular rise jeans because the designers only make the low-rise variety. I might add that apart from being rather immodest, the low-rise jeans don’t do anybody any favors.
 
I usually wear a coat and tie to Sunday Mass - but not always. In my opinion it depends on the circumstances. If you have the time to dress up a little for Mass - like Sunday’s - I feel you should. I’m not saying everybody should be wearing Armani suits, but at the very least wear some slacks and a nice shirt.

During the week is different. Many people go to mass straight from work. I have worn jeans to mass before for this reason.

One of my faults I am trying to work on is judging how other’s dress to Mass. However, when I am forced to go to the local Teen Mass (I have reserve duty and on some weekends and usually miss morning Mass), I can’t help but wonder what the parents are thinking.
 
manualman said:
And like the pope, I’m human too. Deep down inside, if I routinely dress worse for mass than I would for, say, a first date then a part of MY unconscious mind would be assigning mass a value that corresponded to the level of honor that I’ve dressed for.
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Maybe. But when you dress up for a first date, you dress to impress. So you can’t transfer that attitude to Mass – God doesn’t get impressed by wardrobe. And if you did dress up merely to impress, that would be as bad as not dressing up because you didn’t care.

I normally dress casually for Mass. My clothes, however, are always clean and in good repair. The only exception to the casual rule is at Easter and Christmas: I get out my black suit, my tie, my overcoat that I saved up for, and my Dad’s grey silk scarf. If I’m lucky there won’t be much snow down, so I can wear shoes – if not, unfortunately winter hiking-style boots or mukluks are all I have.

Again, I agree that as long as it’s clean, in good repair, modest, and not offensive…

…altho’ I once went to Mass in something filthy, torn, and offensive: a combat uniform during a two-month-long field exercise!😃 (It *was *modest, tho’!)
 
And by the way, I DESPISE neckties, too…I will never forgive the Croatians for that!:mad: 😃
 
kage_ar said:
Goody goody gumdrops, ANOTHER jeans at Mass thread 😃

For the OP, if you use the search tool, you will find hours of great bickering - I mean - genteel discussion - on this same topic.
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Well my question is more specific, about different rules for people who go to weekday mass before/after work 🙂
 
manualman said:
And like the pope, I’m human too. Deep down inside, if I routinely dress worse for mass than I would for, say, a first date then a part of MY unconscious mind would be assigning mass a value that corresponded to the level of honor that I’ve dressed for.
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When I dress up I feel pompous and can’t think about much else besides what I look like. That’s why people like me don’t dress up as often. Everyone’s different, which is maybe why we have different ideas about dressing up for mass 😃
 
Ghoti said:
…altho’ I once went to Mass in something filthy, torn, and offensive: a combat uniform during a two-month-long field exercise!😃 (It *was *modest, tho’!)
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Well if that’s offensive than my husband is in trouble because he came to mass last night and service tonight in his ACU’s. shrug. I see nothing offensive about it.
 
I’ve gone to Mass in jeans many times and it certainly wasn’t out of a lack of respect. My standards for Mass have always been ‘clean & modest’ clothing. My definition of modesty has changed through the years and I cringe when I recall the pink mini dress I used to wear as a teen.

For the last 8 or 9 years I’ve been a reader and I never know when I’m likely to have to fill in so now I’m careful to always wear dress pants or a skirt.
 
James0235 said:
Croatians invented neckties? You learn something every day. 👍

James
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Being of Croatian stock myself it’s nice to know we’re known for something other than Dalmatian dogs (and yes, Dalmatia is a region of Croatia - in fact my father is a through-and-through Dalmatian 🙂 )
 
fnz2thrght said:
Well if that’s offensive than my husband is in trouble because he came to mass last night and service tonight in his ACU’s. shrug. I see nothing offensive about it.
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“Offensive” in that shower opportunities were few and far between (hooo-WEEEE!)😃

If I had died at that point, it would not have just been in the odour of sanctity…:rolleyes:
 
I wear jeans to mass. I don’t really see a problem with it. If I have other pants washed I will wear them, but if I don’t then I won’t worry about it.
 
I think that producing the Dalmations is more than enough penance for having created the neck-tie! You have to love those dogs!!!

I read this thread last week and so just happened to notice that most people attending stations on Good Friday wore jeans. We did ours outside.

I also noticed that most of the people that filled our over-flowing church on Easter sunday were wearing suits and dresses.

It was actually difficult to find a seat, and a lot more difficult to hear the priest, but I wish we had that problem every week!

I think at this point in the history of the church in America we have to be happy that they are attending church.

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