Women's jumpers: YEAH or NAY

  • Thread starter Thread starter Lepanto
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
seremina said:
I love discussions on modesty and seeing pictures of modest clothes.

I usually wear skirts, dresses, jumpers, and if its cold out, I’ll have jeans or pants on underneath the skirt/dress. I prefer long sleeves, even in summer. My black shawl keeps me from getting sunburned on the back of my neck and makes sure I can’t mysteriously get sunburned right through the dress/shirt and skirt/jumper and shirt. My scalp is kept warm in winter and kept cool and un-sunburned in summer…by a pretty bonnet!

You girls will LOVE this site!

plainlydressed.com

They have cotton underclothing that you won’t find in modern stores, headcoverings of all kinds, old-fashioned shoes, etc. This is my favourite site and where I usually shop from. I never have to worry about modern nonsense…like kick pleats, skirts and pants that are supposed to be worn half down your rear, horrid low necklines when I prefer a collar of some kind, see-through clothes, nylon stockings–I prefer cotton, which are sold on this site–, and the non-feminine hats that don’t really cover anything! I could go on and on.

I love handsewing, but it really is difficult for me to read patterns and it can be difficult to find patterns as modest as the Amish/Mennonites have.

Even as a child, I’ve preferred modest clothing. My family tried to get me to wear “more modern” things, but I hated them to no end. They made me feel naked and wrong. I never wanted to offend my Lord in such awful things.

So I do agree with that nice lady that commented that Our Lady of Fatima warned about immodest fashions emerging. I mean, oh boy…did they ever emerge!

Its sad that I can’t find the same modest stuff at secondhand stores, like St. Vincent de Paul nor Salvation Army. I have to always shop at Plainly Dressed and Ebay [sometimes they have modest stuff like this]…but it would help if I also knew of an online place where I could buy this same modest stuff for cheaper. Its difficult when you’re on a low income.
Click to expand...
I think that is a great website, and I really admire the plainly dressed look. Young ladies could take this idea and make it their own, with a little imagination - a revolt against the horrid, unattractive, immodest fashions which are such an insult to Our Lord! How pleasing it would be to see young girls and young ladies dressed in simple cotton dresses in the summer, instead of shorts and tank tops.
 
labernadette said:
OutinChgoburbs;2327343:
Cute, cute, cute- on the right woman. All that skirt would make 5’4" me look like a doorstop.
Click to expand...
No, not on the right woman, on you…a 5’4" doorstop made in the image and likeness of God. That is what matters, does it not? I am 5’4" too, and the way I look is the way I look. No fashion magazine showing emaciated women of tall stature should be the guideline of what looks good.

I have HIPS; not “hips” or hips, but HIPS. So, yes, I would look like a 5’4" inch doorstop, and no, I’m not wearing it. I wear a lot of a-line stuff. It slims, and takes the focus off my HIPS.
Click to expand...
 
seremina said:
I love discussions on modesty and seeing pictures of modest clothes.

I usually wear skirts, dresses, jumpers, and if its cold out, I’ll have jeans or pants on underneath the skirt/dress. I prefer long sleeves, even in summer. …
You girls will LOVE this site!

plainlydressed.com
…
Click to expand...
I’m glad you like it, but it is not me. My soon-to-be daughters (now granddaughters) have biological relatives who descend from the Amish- so no.

We don’t wear belly shirts, halter tops, tube tops, or club jeans here. The girls DO own a wide range of jumpers (mostly a-line, a couple with a fitted top and a fuller skirt)! They are flexible dressing, and stay up on the elder’s hips- she doesn’t have them as the younger does. 😉 Yeh, I’m afraid the younger one is going to have HIPS.
 
plainlydressed.com

Come on this style of dressing is ridiculous. If we go back to the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s ,before Vatican II could be blamed for corrupting the Church, no self-respecting Catholic Woman in the USA would wear these outfits. I have to agree with some of the other posters, as Catholics we should follow the example of our Catholic culture not of the Puritans who founded this country.
 
Kelly said:
plainlydressed.com

Come on this style of dressing is ridiculous. If we go back to the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s ,before Vatican II could be blamed for corrupting the Church, no self-respecting Catholic Woman in the USA would wear these outfits. I have to agree with some of the other posters, as Catholics we should follow the example of our Catholic culture not of the Puritans who founded this country.
Click to expand...
although this site is not my style, i won’t say that it is ridiculous. people have different taste and i am not going to criticize another’s taste in modest clothing.

personally, i like the types of clothing women wore in the movies of the 1940’s,1930’s and 1950’s but i would look odd wearing outfits like that. our grandmother’s looked so much more put together then we do.
 
jrabs said:
Whomever posted this link - order all you want. Those are not very appropriate unless you want people gawking at you.

One can stay appropriately dressed without mimicking the Amish.
Click to expand...
That sounds very narrow-minded. Those simple dresses can be created in any number of ways to make them more appealing to “modern sensibilities.” Fabric choice can vary, shoes etc. can create a very unique and cute look. All that is needed is to get past the “distasteful Amish” mindset. And having people gawk at you - who cares? Personally, I’d rather be gawked at for wearing something like that than what most women are gawked at for nowadays.
 
OutinChgoburbs said:
labernadette;2329915:
I have HIPS
Click to expand...
; not “hips” or hips, but HIPS. So, yes, I would look like a 5’4" inch doorstop, and no, I’m not wearing it. I wear a lot of a-line stuff. It slims, and takes the focus off my HIPS.

My post was meant to make you feel better not to make you angry. You are free to diagree, and disagree you did.
Click to expand...
 
deb1 said:
personally, i like the types of clothing women wore in the movies of the 1940’s,1930’s and 1950’s but i would look odd wearing outfits like that. our grandmother’s looked so much more put together then we do.
Click to expand...
I think the updated version of these (30s,40s,50s) fashions are very flattering and quite modest.
I personally love circle skirts/full pleated skirts and a twin set. Sometimes a nice full skirted tank dress with a cardigan.
Yep, cute and modest!

mccallpattern.com/item/M5042.htm?tab=dresses&page=2
mccallpattern.com/item/M5053.htm?tab=skirts_pants&page=2
mccallpattern.com/item/M4783.htm?tab=skirts_pants&page=3
butterick.com/web/shop.cgi?s.item.B4443=x&TI=10002&page=6
butterick.com/web/shop.cgi?s.item.B4993=x&TI=10005&page=1
butterick.com/web/shop.cgi?s.item.B4686=x&TI=10005&page=2
butterick.com/web/shop.cgi?s.item.B3134=x&TI=10005&page=6
mccallpattern.com/item/M5095.htm?tab=dresses&page=2
butterick.com/item/B4724.htm?tab=dresses&page=5

landsend.com/pp/ModernKnitSkirt-155_166148_59.html?CM_MERCH=PAGE_155
landsend.com/pp/FineGaugeStretchCardigan-69599_128991_59.html?CM_MERCH=PAGE_69599
landsend.com/pp/AirspunCottonCableMockCardigan-69599_149539_59.html?CM_MERCH=ALT_69599

And this is just cute! voguepatterns.com/item/V8352.htm?tab=dresses_includes_designer&page=2
 
I have no problem with modest dressing, but I can’t help wondering whether the people who are praising the http://www.plainlydressed.com site have read the “Sabbath Information” page–accessed through the “Website Menu” on the home page.

This is a violently anti-Catholic site…
 
NMJenny said:
I have no problem with modest dressing, but I can’t help wondering whether the people who are praising the http://www.plainlydressed.com site have read the “Sabbath Information” page–accessed through the “Website Menu” on the home page.

This is a violently anti-Catholic site…
Click to expand...
I cannot seem to find that. Can you provide a link to the page?
 
NMJenny said:
I have no problem with modest dressing, but I can’t help wondering whether the people who are praising the http://www.plainlydressed.com site have read the “Sabbath Information” page–accessed through the “Website Menu” on the home page.

This is a violently anti-Catholic site…
Click to expand...
Well, obviously it is. It’s Amish. Doesn’t mean you have to accept their beliefs to admire their clothing.
 
laudamus_te said:
Well, obviously it is. It’s Amish. Doesn’t mean you have to accept their beliefs to admire their clothing.
Click to expand...
Even if that was my preferred style, that “Sabbath Information” page would be more than enough to keep me from spending my money on that site. Why support violently anti-Catholics when I know that there must be similar sites that do not offend Holy Mother Church and do so with full intent?
 
I wouldn’t send them any money since they are so anti-Catholic. The Catholics didn’t dress like this before Vatican II and I see reason to start this. This is a group of people who spread the lies that so many have been blinded to God’s Holy Church.

As one who is a convert from a Church who said the Pope was an anti-christ I would urge anyone not to send this group one cent. Even if you do want to dress like a Amnish protestant you can get the garb from somewhere else. Remeber whoever owns this group will give 10% to this false church!

SInce when do we have to dress modestly under our clothes and when we go to bed! My husband was there when I had c-sections, miscarriages and post partum exams. He also for the record got me pregnant! Last I checked he was joined to me in the Holy Mystery of matrimony. Yikes!
 
SeekerJen said:
Even if that was my preferred style, that “Sabbath Information” page would be more than enough to keep me from spending my money on that site. Why support violently anti-Catholics when I know that there must be similar sites that do not offend Holy Mother Church and do so with full intent?
Click to expand...
Amen!!!
 
MrsMW said:
SInce when do we have to dress modestly under our clothes and when we go to bed! My husband was there when I had c-sections, miscarriages and post partum exams. He also for the record got me pregnant! Last I checked he was joined to me in the Holy Mystery of matrimony. Yikes!
Click to expand...
That is something I have always wondered.
I enjoy wearing some very lovely undergarments. And no, not all of them are the most modest, but my husband and I are the only ones who see them.
 
NMJenny said:
I have no problem with modest dressing, but I can’t help wondering whether the people who are praising the http://www.plainlydressed.com site have read the “Sabbath Information” page–accessed through the “Website Menu” on the home page.

This is a violently anti-Catholic site…
Click to expand...
laudamus_te said:
Well, obviously it is. It’s Amish. Doesn’t mean you have to accept their beliefs to admire their clothing.
Click to expand...
They are not Amish…Couldn’t be anyway, because the Amish don’t have electricity, much less the internet.
They are Seventh Day Adventists, who live to criticise Catholics. There are lots of other sites out there, which are Mennonite, or whatever…just not SDAs. Anyway, they have lots of modest clothing.
There is a nice listing at hillbillyhousewife.com/links.htm
(including Plainly Dressed), & then there is wwwmodestclothes.com/ which has even more… If you are interested in what a Plain Quaker has to say, you can check out quakerjane.com/ who has a listing of some spots to find things, as well…including Plainly Dressed. P.D. seems to be no end of popular in the modest clothing world. And then there is Colleen Hammond’s site; she is Catholic, & has lots of suggestions, none of whom will accuse Catholics of worshipping idols (or whatever P.D.'s current screed is.
For real, Mennonite (**not **Amish) dresses, follow Quaker Jane’s link to Ruby Roth at Anabaptist Books. She is the real deal, she & her husband are sort of go-betweens between Conservative Mennonites (no internet), & the rest of the world.

Personally, if I had the money to start my wardrobe from scratch, buy a new car, & install central A/C, I might be tempted to buy a lot of clothes from these folks. (I’m not giving up my jeans for anything, but I digress). I like the look, & I am old enough to be able to not worry about fashion any more.
But the Sabbatarian view of the world is too “off” for me. Besides, it reminds me of the battier Conservative Holiness women of my childhood, and I;) live to make them turn somersaults in their graves (.🤷 What can I tell you? Somebody said that “earrings are pagan, & those gold hoops! They’re of the devil”, and I went home, bought a pair of gold hoops, pierced my ears, put them in, and I have been wearing gold hoops for 40 years…just to:p upset a bunch of old biddies).

OK: just:twocents: :whistle: :whistle: :whistle:
 
Is there a rule somewhere that says modesty must be ugly?

Besides being heinously anti-Catholic, that plainlydressed.com/ website sells clothes for Puritans or people who wish to call attention to themselves by their eccentricity. This is another example of Protestantism run amok. Have you ever seen how denuded of beauty Protestant churches are? These clothes similarly strip the God-given beauty of any woman.

Those links to the dresses from the 40s and 50s are proof that one can dress modestly and beautifully.

Modesty CAN be attractive and stylish. We are Catholics, people – not iconoclastic Protestants!
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top