What are your thoughts on women dressing modestly?

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beverly.379 said:
Personally, it’s actually not easy to dress modestly without looking frumpy
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Here’s the problem. If dressing to look a certain way, it’s ego and vanity. We must dress with no regard to how others perceive we look.

We dress for ourselves. That being said, you don’t go to work in a surgical theatre wearing overalls covered in pig manure. One must be practical
 
Out of the mouths of the younger generation come wise words
 
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I wear dresses to Mass, and I generally dress in a way that is quite modest compared to my fellow teenage friends. However I do farm work, and weld, so boots and jeans are a part of my everyday, normal wear. But in general I prefer modesty. I may be a girl but I have to cover my eyes sometimes at some of the things girls (and guys) try to wear to school.
 
God bless you. I appreciate women who dress modestly, at least when they are at the mass. You can be fashionable and that might involve some reveaking dresses, well, I guess those may be acceptable, but when it is immodestly revealing it does not reflect much of the inner spirituality of the Christian women.

Sometimes, our dresses are our statement that constitutes our image.
 
I own two dresses, not suitable for mass at all. I am sure. The next dress I will wear will be to a wedding.
 
I have worn only skirts and dresses for almost 7 years, since I got married. (Hubby did not mandate that; it was my choice.) I used to wear scrub pants but have since switched to wearing scrub skirts and dresses. (I’m a nursing instructor and wear scrubs for teaching labs and clinical.) I don’t think I look “frumpy” at all. I have beautiful maxi skirts and knee-length skirts. When I wear my knee-length skirts I usually wear leggings underneath. (The skirts are modest but I like the extra coverage.) I have several pretty dresses too.
 
What are my thoughts on women dressing modestly?

Well, they should.

And whoever thought Yoga pants look good on women? Horrible fashion designer there.
 
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If I recall aright, Mary said at Fatima " Certain fashions will be introduced
which will offend our Lord very much"
 
I’m happy to say I am now at the advanced age where I don’t have to worry about “immodesty” any more because I’m highly unlikely to be wearing anything that shows off my body. In my daily life (i.e. not anything that calls for a power suit or a dressy dress or formal wear), I also couldn’t care less if somebody thinks I look “frumpy” or not. I’m not selling myself and frankly I’ve been dressing pretty much the same way for 15 years and will probably continue in this vein because it’s comfortable and practical.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a woman wearing pants anywhere, as long as they aren’t so low-cut or tight that you’re seeing everything she’s got. I enjoy wearing skirts from time to time,but there are a huge variety of weather and life situations where they simply are not practical and may even be a health hazard. You don’t wear skirts on a factory floor, or outside in zero degree snowy weather (especially since nowadays women do not wear layers of flannel petticoats and heavy woolen stockings under them). You also don’t wear any kind of a long skirt in a setting where you run a risk of tripping over it, such as to carry things up and down stairs.
 
Also, on the “longer skirts” question, I’ve worn longer skirts the majority of the time since I was about 20, because I have a thing for the “prairie dress” look, the “1930s” retro look and the 80s look that had full skirts or duster coats coming down to your boot tops.

Nobody has ever asked me if I were a fundie or whatever. They just assumed I was into retro or hippie wear. At most I get hit up by homeless people a lot for donations because a lot of my clothes come from Deva or Marketplace Handwork of India and they assume I’m a soft touch (nope).
 
CilladeRoma said:
Modesty is not just about what you wear.

It is the attitude you carry, the way you present yourself, how you speak, your body language and your interior disposition.

I could be in a very modest dress and still swear, act trashy and be a nasty rotten person. Clothes do not make the man, or woman, as the case may be.
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There is a lot of truth to this!

Properly speaking, Modesty is the virtue by which one regulates their externals so as not to draw attention to oneself, or to cause others to sin against the 6th and 9th commandments. It’s a subvirtue to the virtue of Temperance.

In regards your description, much of what you listed would fall under the vice of both immodesty and crudity —Crudity being the vice of lack of etiquette and manners.
 
Just cause you are older doesn’t mean you can wear togs to Walmart!
 
What’s a tog? In USA “togs” is just slang for clothes or maybe kids’ clothes.
Or did you mean a “toga”? I haven’t worn that since high school Latin Club had a booth at the school fair.
 
beverly.379 said:
What really convinced to not wear pants was reading Dressing with Dignity by Colleen Hammond. It’s a good read. It touched on Freemasonry and the destruction of the family.
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I once told a male family friend about her claim that men’s eyes are automatically drawn to the crotch of women who wear pants. He looked at me like I had two heads and said something along the lines of “that’s news to me!”
 
LumineDiei said:
Wear dresses and skirts only if you want, but PLEASE don’t attribute any problems in the family or society to females wearing bifurcated pieces on material on the lower half of their body.
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This 1000x.

(don’t call me mustache)
 
Not necessarily true. Although I think if the woman wears her pants tight enough that might be the case.
 
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