Ladies, There is A Difference....

[Esther]

Bro. I understand where you are coming from. When I wasn't in the church and my husband was just a good ole Baptist he was tired of me wearing pants all the time instead of dresses.

Again, they were much more comfortable, so easy to cordinate shoes, etc and I usually didn't wear hosiery with them. Much more comfortable.

However, IF I was wanting to dress up it was always a dress.

[Nahum]

I have seen women in skirts that had the aura and mannerisms of a man.

I have seen women in pants that were extremely feminine and lady-like.

However, I do think that the way we dress tells everyone who sees us something about our belief system.

The image we choose to project is important.

[tamor]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

Not one bit. So funny that you would even think that. What would be the difference in pulling up my undergarments - - they sure don't make me feel like a man.

I too wear skirts and dresses still - - - I'm all woman in whatever I wear!

You know, I wear them very rarely. I have had on a skirt maybe twice in the last five years. Just don't want to. I may change my mind tomorrow and wear them for weeks...but I doubt it.

I even wore pants in my daughter's wedding. I bought an extremely nice pants set that had flowing panels over the legs. At first glance, it looked like a skirt, but it was pants and it was beautiful. I asked Tiffany if it would bother her and she said, "Mom, it's beautiful, and it is so you. Why would I care?" I was so comfortable because I felt great and not like I was trying to be something that I'm not. And as you said, I am all woman!

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

I have seen women in skirts that had the aura and mannerisms of a man.

I have seen women in pants that were extremely feminine and lady-like.

However, I do think that the way we dress tells everyone who sees us something about our belief system.

The image we choose to project is important.

I agree with everything you said.

Dresses are finally back everywhere in the stores - - skirts have been for a long time, but now dresses are back! I've seen an increase in dress wearing everywhere. Now that it's more common to see "non-church" ladies wearing dresses again it's not so much a marker of their belief system, but a choice of other things to wear.

I love dressing up in a girly dress with heels and hair done nicely! I feel very comfortable being a woman dressed like that or a nice pair of women's slacks and a sweater, jacket or silky blouse..........either way I love God just the same and I treat people the same no matter how I'm dressed.

[Apprehended]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

Not one bit. So funny that you would even think that. What would be the difference in pulling up my undergarments - - they sure don't make me feel like a man.

I too wear skirts and dresses still - - - I'm all woman in whatever I wear!

Noooooo doubt about it missy. Indeed you are!!!

I am only expressing my inward feelings as of late. I have never really dwelt on this before. Maybe because I was too busy in life to give pause to it. But, having never seen Hillary in anything but BRITCHES (that is funny) has caused me to stop and think...and then look around more than I ever have before.

Don't misunderstand my attitude here. My questions are clinical though I do have inward feelings that are now arising within me.

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Apprehended

Noooooo doubt about it missy. Indeed you are!!!

I am only expressing my inward feelings as of late. I have never really dwelt on this before. Maybe because I was too busy in life to give pause to it. But, having never seen Hillary in anything but BRITCHES (that is funny) has caused me to stop and think...and then look around more than I ever have before.

Don't misunderstand my attitude here. My questions are clinical though I do have inward feelings that are now arising within me.

App,

Your attitude is just fine - - we are just discussing!

I think as a whole society has a dumb downed, dressed down attitude. I remember when you wore you "Sunday best" to the doctor or when you flew on an airplane. Now, you see people in pajama pants and t-shirts everywhere.

When I was in high school, everyone dressed to the "T".......have you driven by a high school lately - - - they don't even comb their hair!

[tamor]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

App,

Your attitude is just fine - - we are just discussing!

I think as a whole society has a dumb downed, dressed down attitude. I remember when you wore you "Sunday best" to the doctor or when you flew on an airplane. Now, you see people in pajama pants and t-shirts everywhere.

When I was in high school, everyone dressed to the "T".......have you driven by a high school lately - - - they don't even comb their hair!

Amen to this post!

[Apprehended]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

App,

Your attitude is just fine - - we are just discussing!

I think as a whole society has a dumb downed, dressed down attitude. I remember when you wore you "Sunday best" to the doctor or when you flew on an airplane. Now, you see people in pajama pants and t-shirts everywhere.

When I was in high school, everyone dressed to the "T".......have you driven by a high school lately - - - they don't even comb their hair!

No, but I've been on a plane a lot. I know what you mean as I see the samething everywhere I go.

I just wonder if this causual (often less than casual) look is indicative of the loss of a general sense of self-respect and dignity?

Though I dress casually, I am careful about what I wear. I never wear cut off pants or shorts, I will wear socks, long sleeves and shirt carefully buttoned. I will dress cleanly and try to coordinate my clothes too, including socks and shoes. Unlike so many men that I see, my hair will be carefully combed even if it is later wind blown, since I don't use hair stiffners.

From what I see, I would not call it being dumbed down, but just a plain loss of national or social idealism of the dignity of mankind. It seems that the door was opened to such loss beginning with the prayer in school ruling by the Supreme court, that had the effect of banishing God from public education.

[My Own Eyes]

Originally Posted by Apprehended

I do not think that the woman, Hillary Clinton owns a dress or a skirt. Everytime I see her in the news, she is wearing BRITICHES.

Over the years I have noticed that more women are wearing britches. Years ago, I was not too much bothered by it for some reason though I never thought that a Christian women claiming to be full of the Holy Ghost should strut around in them at all.

Yesterday, while waiting in the tire store waiting on my pickup truck, I happened to look around and for some reason, I noticed three women in the waiting room, each wearing pants. Then, a woman walked in with a long skirt on and for some reason, my heart rejoiced. I hope that she thought I was flirting but I caught her eye and smiled really big. There was such an approval of her that rose up in my heart for the reason of the skirt.

Yes ladies, there IS a difference between ME and THEE. God in his great divine wisdom, made it so. Aren't you THANKFUL that there is a difference...a very wonderful difference? Everytime I see Hillary, she is wearing her BRITICHES, as though she is trying to portray a manly imagine of power befitting to the office of President or even a Senator.

More and more, I have a growing appreciation of the symbol of difference between men and women as seen in skirts vs. britches. I see a woman wearing pants as a woman not fully happy being a woman, though this may not be the case at all, but it is an impression I get. I hope I am wrong.

Ladies, take off the britches and put on a skirt or a dress. The dignity of a skirt or a dress on a woman is so much appreciated by such old fogies as myself. I cannot scripturally prove that it is a salvational issue, but it seems to me that NATURE itself should teach us certain things, among them is the wearing of the symbol of the wonderful differences between me and THEE. Thus, I feel within myself that the wearing of that which pertains to the male sex is displeasing to the Lord. If it is so, then it very much a salvational issue. One cannot go to heaven having lived a life displeasing to Him.

Let us celebrate the difference in our sex with joy.

To me, skirts vs. pants depends on my activity. I still wear skirts or dresses to work 90% of the time, I'm an office manager, and I just think that skirts tend to look dressier. (But that is probably because I don't really own any "pants" just jeans).

When I am not at work, and doing something casual, I usually go for jeans.

In the summer, I barely wear jeans at all, it's just too hot! I might wear capri's, but tend to find skirts "cooler"

[Apprehended]

Originally Posted by My Own Eyes

To me, skirts vs. pants depends on my activity. I still wear skirts or dresses to work 90% of the time, I'm an office manager, and I just think that skirts tend to look dressier. (But that is probably because I don't really own any "pants" just jeans).

When I am not at work, and doing something casual, I usually go for jeans.

In the summer, I barely wear jeans at all, it's just too hot! I might wear capri's, but tend to find skirts "cooler"

I can understand that.

There is some kind of work that a woman would be silly to attempt in long skirts or dresses.

I have a cousin that is full of the Holy Ghost who would never be caught dead in public places with pants on. I have a great deal of confidence in Georgia, my cousin. However, she and her husband own a farm. Both work very hard and long hours there. To wear anything other than pants in such toil would be very impractical.

I do not subscribe to the "abomination" theory that so many of my bretheren subscribe to. Do do so would neccessarily subscribe to the "combination" theory as well as the abomination theory. The combination theory says that to wear a combination of wool and silk is also an abomination.

Nevertheless, I believe that God is pleased with women wearing what is distinctive, celebrating the differences in the sex. Nature seems to teach that, even if it is not a biblical notion, since the ordinances that were against us are nailed to the cross.