What is appropriate clothing to wear at Mass if you're a female?

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Good gracious. Isn’t life simple when you’re 19 and know best?

God bless nurses and other essential professions that work on a Sunday to serve their fellow man.

I used to believe as our young friend, that gender specifics were like a straitjacket. I used to believe that women had to wear long skirts and sleeves, cover their hair at all times and stay home, clean house and cook dinner while husband worked outside the home to support everyone in it.

Simple fact is in our culture, much of that is middle class fantasy. My mother had to work outside the home as my working class father didn’t earn a wage that would support a family. It is no different today.

As to trousers ( I can’t call them pants, pants certainly are immodest in the UK, it means underwear here!) why exactly do you think they are immodest? Have you been culturally conditioned that way? Or are you spending a bit too much time looking at women’s posteriors? If it’s cultural, I suggest a little time looking at the history of costume. There was a time when people like you would have a fit at the sight of an ankle. If it’s the second reason, you need to think about where you are looking.
 
Ignore that troll. A 19 year old boy is just that, 19. (I’m 19 myself, lol).

The whole extreme traditional thing is very appealing for a rather lazy young man. After all, how easy would it be for a man to just come home and play with the kids, whilst the wife have to run after them, cook for them, clean for them, take care of them during the day? How easy would it be to get a job if there are a significant less amount of women in the workforce?

At 19, one tries to follow a movement, a belief for some sort of identity. Some follow feminism, some follow the red pill, etc. And then hopefully you wake up.
 
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I wear gasp jeans to Mass. I have two types of pants-formal and jeans. I wear the formal pants for presentations in school. It’s extremely inconvenient to wear (you need to wear the right kind of undergarment, if you know what I mean)

For the tops, I basically wear anything I have (t shirts to floral blouses to sweaters).

I’m soo darn poor so when I shop for clothes, I make sure I get a lot of use out of them (so basically clothes that I can wear to school as well as church). Usually that means jeans, and any tops that is modest enough (ie no cleavage, bare backs.)

We don’t wear black to funerals here, so this might sound odd. We wear normal clothes (jeans, etc). In fact, depending on the cultures, we avoid certain colors (not wearing red during a chinese man’s funeral). In fact I know a few families that get offended if someone dresses up for a funeral (because dressing up implies a celebration I guess).

Appropriate clothing really depends on the type of parish, tbh. I would think twice about wearing what I usually wear to one of those parishes some posters seem to be talking about.

The safest option to me is always black pants (or black jeans) and a blouse, not a t shirt, but something that is considered a little ‘dressy’ and covered shoes. After you get a rough look at how others usually dress, you can be more casual or dressy imo.
 
You got some serious learnin’ to do, young man! I for one, am highly grateful for the ICU nurses that had 12 hour shifts when my son was in the ICU at the exact same age you are today.

Here’s a thought for you, young one: Mark 3:1-6.

Be careful that your personal dress code doesn’t include a suit made by Pharisees R Us!
 
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