Dressing With Our Lady
A collection of posts from the Castle of the Immaculate
relating to modest, Catholic dressing.
Battleground for the Good
Isn't that going too Far?
Modesty of the Eyes
Frumpiness
The Pure of Heart Shall See the Face of God or Public Hair Shirt
The Virtue of Skirts
Vanity and Dressing Modestly
This is my bathing suit!
4Real Forum posts
Ironing and Modesty
The Practicality of 3/4 sleeves
Beauty and Modesty
Modesty for Boys
A series of posts grouped in the category:
Discerning Modesty
1. The Practice of Modesty Lies in the Realm of Discernment
2. Discerning Modesty - Interior Factors
3. Take A Break from the Forces at Work
Discerning Modesty - Exterior Factors
4. Motherhood and the Livery of Our Lady
5. Husbands and Discerning Modesty
What if your husband is not in favor of "skirts only."
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Dressing with Our Lady
7 comments:
These posts are awesome! Thank you so much for articulating so well. It can difficult to provide answers for modesty questions. You've given great responses to potential critics.
cJust a thought on the comment that Our Lady never appears dressed in pants. I've heard this many times and always think well, Our Lord hasn't appeared in pants either! What I think is they appear dressed as they did in their time on earth.
While I think dressing in a skirt or dress is fine if that is what you are comfortable in, for those who want to wear pants there is a modest way to go about it. Pants can be bought that are loose/baggy and some even stretch as you wear them. A shirt can be worn that goes down way below the waist. If the material is clingy you can buy a size larger. The T-shirt type can be feminine in nice colors, flower patterns and the sleeves are almost down to the elbows.
There are always ways of dressing modestly and I think its important to remember the year that God had us born into and try to find the best ways of dressing that fits in.
Dear Anonymous,
I write my "Dressing With Mary" posts from the perspective of a weak person who must work hard at dressing modestly.
As I posted at the 4Real board,I believe that the Lord is perfect and chose the perfect time (the fullness of time) to manifest Himself to the world. He chose the time of the Roman Empire. Catholic text books speak of the importance of the Roman Empire and its excellent road system, unified language, and Pax Romana which were important catalysts for spreading Christianity. Catholic text books say this is not accident.
So, then I pose this question:
Is it an accident that the Lord manifested Himself as True God and True Man in a time and culture which did not admit slacks?
I don’t see accidents in God’s plan. I take it very seriously the things He did and said. I’m not going to just say “He was a product of His environment.”
Rather, I am a product of my environment and I have to be constantly aware of how my environment is molding me, blinding me to the truth that Christ taught.
For Lent, I'll be posting a new series of modesty posts. I'll begin after I finish a few Lenten themed posts.
Dear Mary Vitamin;
To answer your question, I don't think Our Lord manifested Himself at a time when men didn't wear pants. I think the other reasons you stated were more important. If you follow your reasoning then men won't wear pants either as Our Lord didn't and no man at the time He lived in wore them.
I agree that many pants are imodest and was just suggesting ways to go about wearing them in a modest way. But if you hold the belief that Our Lord manifested Himself in an age where men and women didn't were pants and because of that you don't wear pants then I can see that my suggestions won't help.
To follow your line of thinking many things we do and use were not used by Our Lord. So do we also give them up?
I just found your blog and these posts are wonderful. Thank you so much.
I was just wondering if you could explain more about why you don't wear swimsuits. The swimming pool has always troubled me. I switched to skirts below the knee and shirts below the elbow a couple years or so ago. But every summer someone asks us to meet them at the pool. This year every time my local homeschool group meets during the summer it will be at a pool. Likewise for the church's mom's group. I don't want to be a modesty snob, and I do want to see my friends over the summer, so I end up putting my daughter in a swimsuit and just sitting at the poolside fully dressed. But this always bothers me. I feel like it's a double standard. And I do want my daughter to learn how to swim, just for safety's sake, and we don't have a private lake where she can learn to do that. I'm curious, how did you resolve the swimming issue?
Kim,
I'll try to address your questions in another post.
You have brought up many good points.
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