What is modest dressing?

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In this country, men don’t so much dress immodestly as ridiculously. I have a hard time keeping a straight face when I see the teenage boys in my neighborhood with their pants so baggy the crotch is past the knees, and their boxers showing. Add the basketball jersey, the backwards hat (all name-brand expensive athletic gear of course) and all their bling, and they look like clowns. I like to call them “little pimplings.” What is most sad though is that alot of these kids don’t have much money and instead of saving the little they do have for an education they waste it on these ridiculous clothes that will be out of style in a few months anyways. Plain old modesty for men is more of a problem in Europe, especially Italy. The men there wear their pants SO TIGHT it leaves nothing up to the imagination. Not to mention the low cut shirts they are fond of, so tight you can see their nipples :eek: I guess the Italian women find this attractive, but I was horrified!
 
Ooops I overstepped once again…diaregard most of my comments about dress…fashion is something I will never understand…didn’t mean to make anybodoy think I did understand it.

I occasionally have to apologize for what I have written…would be better if I could discipline myself to placing any response that I might have in my word processor for review the next day prior to submittal to forum.

As per usual, when I get to pointing my finger at other folks it usually gets me iin a bit of hot water…even if I’m the only one to write about it.
 
I haven’t been to a wedding in ages. But I have heard that wedding gowns and bridesmaids’ dresses are almost all strapless or have spaghetti straps. Whatever happened to the rule that wedding dresses always have sleeves or that one didn’t wear halters or similarly bare blouses or dresses to Mass?
 
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I think I just figured out how to say what I was tryin to say.

Ladies (reference dress code):

“If you are handing out apples…No thank you.” Little Genesis play on words.
 
whatever you where we should not be able to guess what kind of underwear you have on. went to Mass out of town yesterday for a baptism, upscale affluent parish, looking down the rows the teenage boys in our family were guessing "thong, no thong, panty lines, thong . . . "
 
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kwitz:
What I want to know is why do girl’s shorts get tighter and shorter? While boy’s shorts are getting baggier and longer? My 12 year old son thought he needed new uniform shorts because they didn’t reach his knees. My answer - in May, I think not!!
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Tune into the NBA and women’s tennis, and you may have your answer to both questions. There must be three times as much fabric in an NBA uniform now than there was in 1974. All those body-hugging spandex clothes? The athletes wore them first.

It occurs to me that much of this probably does come straight out of Title IX. Women who were on the cross country team and who have jogged past every corner of the town wearing shorts and t-shirts just do not see sportswear as immodest attire. If you group your errands to save gas, you go to the grocery store on the way home from your workout… and you’re in sweat pants, running shorts, or spandex. If you’ve appeared that way huffing, puffing, and red in the face in front of a grandstand full of cheering fans, embarrassment is pretty much a thing of the past.
 
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KCT:
I’ll never forget the Sunday a grown woman came to Mass in white shorts that were so sheer, you could tell she was wearing a thong. I felt sorry for the teen boy behind her. —KCT
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The saddest thing about all of this is that the priests say NOTHING!!! For fear that: “well they may get angry and leave the Church for good.” This boils my blood. Where are the COURAGOUS priests out there???
 
Hey, I just want to know who the heck the 28 people are who said that women must always wear long dresses and long sleeves!!
 
Ah, the option isn’t long dresses with long sleeves, it’s “dresses with sleeves” compared to shorts with sleeveless tops.

I was embarrassed at a recent funeral where my 16YO niece wore a fairly skimpy dress. She always dresses with very little and I had hoped she would be more modest for a funeral.
 
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redkim:
Hey, I just want to know who the heck the 28 people are who said that women must always wear long dresses and long sleeves!!
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Better than when they dress in mini skirts, tank tops, and see through clothing, where it is obvious to EVERYONE what type and color of underware they have on. All this, usually in Church too. SAD.
 
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misericordie:
Better than when they dress in mini skirts, tank tops, and see through clothing, where it is obvious to EVERYONE what type and color of underware they have on. All this, usually in Church too. SAD.
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Cheesey Petes!
Stop being so serious! Mandated dress for secular women for all aspects of their life is simply wrong. Whether it’s miniskirts or ankle-length dresses…it’s wrong.
 
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Rascal:
Ah, the option isn’t long dresses with long sleeves, it’s “dresses with sleeves” compared to shorts with sleeveless tops.

I was embarrassed at a recent funeral where my 16YO niece wore a fairly skimpy dress. She always dresses with very little and I had hoped she would be more modest for a funeral.
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Doesn’t matter if it’s long dresses with long sleeves or simply dresses with sleeves. We’re not talking simply about being at Mass here…we’re talking daily life. To mandate such stuff is ridiculous.
 
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Stylite:
Reasonable guidelines. 👍

My wife and I were at the mall recently (first time in a while since we have three little ones) and couldn’t believe what we saw. The immodesty was one thing, but the stupid words on the clothes really took the cake! Why would any parent let their daughter wear shorts that said “juicy” on the back!? :confused:
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THANK YOU!!! This drives me absolutely crazy!! Why do you wear words written accross your rear end? So people will look there, right? :banghead: I have three girls, and this year I thought I was going to have to make all their shorts and athletic pants. Why parents want people ogling their little girls derrieres is beyond me. And when I make a comment about it, people usually look at me like I'm crazy! Some world we live in, huh?
 
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legeorge:
THANK YOU!!! This drives me absolutely crazy!! Why do you wear words written accross your rear end? So people will look there, right? :banghead: I have three girls, and this year I thought I was going to have to make all their shorts and athletic pants. Why parents want people ogling their little girls derrieres is beyond me. And when I make a comment about it, people usually look at me like I’m crazy! Some world we live in, huh?
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I’m 26, and I wouldn’t wear pants with words printed on the rear. I can’t for the life of me imagine why parents would think this was appropriate attire for their children. Of course I could go on and on about inappropriate children’s clothing, but this is not the thread for that. I’ll leave by asking, why do little girls need thong underwear, strapless dresses, and skin-tight hiphuggers? :mad:
 
Hi,

Please let the ‘juicy’ thing slip away quickly and quietly. It’s awful, just awful. I realize I must be getting older, but I just cringe when I see the hip-huggers. I used to flip out over the boys with their pants around their thighs, but at least they had underwear on.
The teenagers I’ve seen are so beautiful, I just don’t understand why they would want to distract from their inner beauty by wearing skimpy things that are not going to get them the attention they really need and hopefully want.
 
as an artist, i have spent, literally, thousands of hours painting nude and semi-nude models. I have no problem seeing a woman’s body and simply saying “it’s beautiful” and moving down the road. if there are lustful thoughts in your head, they are YOUR problem (the person having them) not the person who dressed, perhaps, not up to your standards.
poeple should govern themselves by their own standards, but i think when a person has lustful or impure thoughts, they try to blame the person dressing that way instead of realizing that it is simply THEIR perception of sexiness that makes it so.

that’s my 2cents.
 
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KCT:
I’ll never forget the Sunday a grown woman came to Mass in white shorts that were so sheer, you could tell she was wearing a thong. I felt sorry for the teen boy behind her. —KCT
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why were you looking at her posterior?

Americans have the worst body image hangups in the world. it’s not a religious thing, it’s a culutral loathing of the human body.
it think it’s very strange to view the human body as anything but a wonderful work of art, beautiful beyond reproach and never something to be ashamed of, as it is but a mere brushstroke in Gods master painting.
 
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thechrismyster:
why were you looking at her posterior?

Americans have the worst body image hangups in the world. it’s not a religious thing, it’s a culutral loathing of the human body.
it think it’s very strange to view the human body as anything but a wonderful work of art, beautiful beyond reproach and never something to be ashamed of, as it is but a mere brushstroke in Gods master painting.
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This is a very relativistic question and subjective at that. The point everyone here is trying to make is that there IS such a thing as Imodesty, and we SEE it everywhere including in Mass. Modesty and chastity are mentioned you know inthe NEW Catechism of the Catholic Church. Decency in a person’s dress code does say much about the person, and their desperate NEED to attract attention to themselves. How can anyone NOT look in the afformentioned case, she is saying by her very inapropriate clothing, “hey everyone, look at ME.” There is such a thing as RIGHT and WRONG. As the Holy Father says, OBJECTIVE truth.:rolleyes:
 
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