Revisiting the "PANTS" Issue

[HeavenlyOne]

Originally Posted by StMark

Okay, now we are making a little progress.

If a man wore a dress made ONLY for women, say the fabric is made from burlap and has litte spikes coming out of it to make it more masculine, wouldn't it still "PERTAIN" to a female's garment since it's a Dress ???

HO, when did pants AND a dress both become a woman's garment but only pants are for men ??

Mark, it's hard to answer questions like this because our society says that dresses are for women, but there are other cultures where men wear a dress-like garment and it's completely acceptable in their society. However, if those men were in the US and wore that garment, they would be looked at as dressing strangely, would they not?

To answer your first question, no. It doesn't pertain to women's attire for the reasons you stated anymore than both men and women wearing robes were considered to be wearing attire belonging to the other gender.

As for the second question, women in other cultures have been wearing pants for centuries. America is a culture made up of all cultures. America doesn't have a culture all her own. Never has. You are speaking of white culture in America, but you cannot claim that blacks, Indians, and orientals have the same dress culture that white America does, even though they live in America and may even be just as American as you and I.

Understand that until about 400 years ago, men and women wore the same garment in the Western culture, for the most part. It was men, white European men, who decided to deviate from traditional attire and bifurcate their garments, even causing concern in a society that thought those men were immodest in doing so.

We cannot take what white men and women were wearing in America 100 years ago and state that those dress standards should apply today. If we can do that, why not go further like, 400 years ago and have men wear stockings, powdered wigs and high heels with big buckles, in addition to tunics, robes, and skirts?

Dress culture changes all the time. God isn't concerned with that, just that we look like the gender we were born with. Regardless of the culture, men should look like men, and women like women. Men can look like men if they wear pants, and they can look like men wearing robes. To God, it doesn't matter, only that they look like men.