[LMB] [OT] Clothing regulations

[Suzette Petty]

 > Message: 3> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:45:57 +1100> From: Helen Fenton <hifenton at internode.on.net>> Subject: Re: [LMB] [OT] Clothing regulations>> Suzette Petty wrote:> > > > I wore jeans for years, but something my pastor said made me switch to skirts "just to see." > > > *snip*> > Sometimes I feel like I live in a completely different world from some of the list. > > > > Suzette > So what did he say? -> Helen - now a public servant in Canberra > My pastor said that long skirts and modest apparel are associated with Christian women, in much the same way that other kinds of apparel are associated with other groups of people (such as leather jackets and bikers, to choose a non-religious example). Not everyone who does it is, but people make assumptions based on your apparel. It's a better testimony for you to appear in clothing that people associate with your belief than to dress contrary to those assumptions because people have already made the assumption based on your appearance before you open your mouth (it was a bit more involved than that, but that's the gist of it).  
 
Explaining why he thought it was a good idea to dress that way went a lot further with me than the sermons when he'd occasionally just talk about how the Bible says women should dress in modest apparel.  On those occasions, I kept thinking about the various changes in women's AND men's apparel since the time the Bible was written. Incidentally, it's never the main subject of one of his sermons.  He just occasionally goes off-topic.  :)
 
Suzette
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