should women wear dresses/skirts all the time

[HankD]

Should we even waist our energy typing about it?

Nope!

So why did you?

HankD

 

[Amity]

Okay, I'll chime in here...may as well, 10 pages, what's one more post.....

If a woman (and her husband if she's married) have the conviction that she should wear dresses all the time, I say, go for it! That's great! It's a personal conviction, IMHO. No one should condemn another for such things.

(see Romans chapter 14 for why)


I am a very conservative Christian. Modest dress is how we are told to dress. I do not wear short shorts in the summer time or shirts that show off anything....nor do I allow my daughter to....and all my dresses/skirts are well below the knee. I do wear jeans if I'm just going out to the grocery store or something. I almost ALWAYS wear a long skirt to worship, however if it's REALLY cold (it gets like below zero up here) I will wear slacks to church and do not feel one bit guilty about it. I can wear business casual at work, so lots of times it's khacki's and a sweater.


In Christian love.

 

[Marcia]

Wearing clothes pertaining to the other gender would mean a woman wearing real man's clothing and trying to appear as a man -- in other words, she would be taking up male dress and maybe even what are considered male mannerisms to appear masculine. Wearing women's pants, or even wearing a man's shirt to clean house, is NOT violating scripture!

Men would have to wear women's clothes or dress as a woman would (as in drag shows).

It seems clear that the biblical principle is that one should not try to appear to be of the opposite gender or act as if one is.

 

[dpogs]

There is always an international code. In any part of the world if you will visit any public/private comfort rooms (especially famous hotels and restaurants) you will see that the picture sign for ladies is a human figure wearing skirts and a picture sign for gentleman is a human figure wearing pants. So, it was universally accepted that if youre a woman you must wear skirts. (Deut. 22:5)

In wearing skirts, it must be Biblical not only just wear skirts. Modern fashion includes tight, fit, body forming skirts. A lady must observed modesty. And if a lady observing modesty, a man was also do so.

 

[Kidz-4-HIM]

Originally posted by Marcia:
Wearing clothes pertaining to the other gender would mean a woman wearing real man's clothing and trying to appear as a man ... Wearing women's pants, or even wearing a man's shirt to clean house, is NOT violating scripture!

ok and i'll wear a man's dress!

there is no difference in a woman wearing 'womens' pants and a man wearing a 'mans' dress

 

[Karen]

Originally posted by Kidz-4-HIM:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />..........

ok and i'll wear a man's dress!

there is no difference in a woman wearing 'womens' pants and a man wearing a 'mans' dress [/QB]</font>[/QUOTE]Go right ahead!! On Christmas Eve, I saw a man dressed in a formal Scottish kilt with full regalia! He was dressed in a very masculine style.

Karen

 

[Marcia]

Originally posted by Kidz-4-HIM:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Marcia:
Wearing clothes pertaining to the other gender would mean a woman wearing real man's clothing and trying to appear as a man ... Wearing women's pants, or even wearing a man's shirt to clean house, is NOT violating scripture!

ok and i'll wear a man's dress!

there is no difference in a woman wearing 'womens' pants and a man wearing a 'mans' dress </font>[/QUOTE]Aw, come on, don't be disingenuous (if you don't know that word, look it up; it's a good word). You know full well that there are pants and slacks made for women. They are usually very feminine. It's just ridiculous that anyone would actually think it's a sin for a woman to wear these. (There are no "men's dresses")

The Bible does not say women cannot wear pants -- it says that women should not dress as a man does.

 

[donnA]

If a woman (and her husband if she's married) have the conviction that she should wear dresses all the time, I say, go for it! That's great! It's a personal conviction, IMHO. No one should condemn another for such things.

After going through this same topic at least 9 times here let me tell you it is not usually them who condemned, but those of us who also wear pants. I have been told I was going to hell, that I was not pleasing to God, I was not a serious christian, I didn't care if I disobeyed God, that I was not spiritual enough, some bad names I won't repeat, and on and on.
Yet I have never said that to anyone who wanted to wear only dresses.

 

[donnA]

Originally posted by dpogs:
There is always an international code. In any part of the world if you will visit any public/private comfort rooms (especially famous hotels and restaurants) you will see that the picture sign for ladies is a human figure wearing skirts and a picture sign for gentleman is a human figure wearing pants. So, it was universally accepted that if youre a woman you must wear skirts. (Deut. 22:5)

In wearing skirts, it must be Biblical not only just wear skirts. Modern fashion includes tight, fit, body forming skirts. A lady must observed modesty. And if a lady observing modesty, a man was also do so.

Since when does culture and secular society dictate what I should wear? Since when should I have to dress like anyone on any sign or picture?
I've seen this argument several times and it's still as redicouls as it was the first time I read it.
OIne person aregued agaisnt pants by saying women started wearing pants when hollywood women did it of coursr that was following culture and secular societies dictates, then turn around and say women should only wear pants becasue secular society says so becasue of bathrooms signs.
Quite the silliest argument I think I've heard on any debate on anything suposedly biblical( it ties with the hair arguments)

 

[Plain Old Bill]

Donna you and Marcia are right on,especially considering some of the modern popular clothing today. The rule is for modesty men and women alike.

 

[donnA]

I'm glad someone thinks men need modesty too.

 

[MsGuidedAngel]

I personally wear skirts and dresses all the time, that is my Choice, at home I'll wear sweatpants to keep warm though. I don't wear sweatpants outside.

This is a Personal Conviction of everyone. No one Person is the Same as the other, Thank God We all are different, because if we were the same this would be a Very Boring World!

Love n' Hugs, \o/

KristiAnn
MsGuidedAngel

 

[UnderHisWings]

Why do those who believe that modesty would logically conclude that pants are not modest instantly become legalists? Pants do excentuate (sp?) the womans figure. The Bible commands the sister to be shamefaced. How can she do this when the world is checking her out at the super market? I haven't been saved that long to remember what the fella's (lost and wicked) did and said when tight jeans went by...nothing else needs to be said here. I choose to have my wife and six daughter to be a testimony to the sweetness and the holiness of the Saviour. I hate visiting a church wear the topic of modesty is waffled on (I think mainly do to fear of the face of man,) and have to guard my eyes because of immodesty both in dresses and pants. BUT...it's up to ya'll...I just know what the world thinks.

A brother,
Ben

 

[Rachel]

[/QUOTE]After going through this same topic at least 9 times here let me tell you it is not usually them who condemned, but those of us who also wear pants. I have been told I was going to hell, that I was not pleasing to God, I was not a serious christian, I didn't care if I disobeyed God, that I was not spiritual enough, some bad names I won't repeat, and on and on.
Yet I have never said that to anyone who wanted to wear only dresses. [/QB][/QUOTE]

WOW! That is really sad.

Rachel

 

[Plain Old Bill]

So if we carry this dress code thing to it's end conclussion we should let the Taliban decide what women wear.
Some men or women will be tempted no matter what one wears or does'nt wear.

 

[I Am Blessed 24]

Amen!

 

[robycop3]

I believe "dress codes" are a form of an attempt at mind control. It would be silly of us who live where the temp sometimes goes down to -20 F to expect women to wear skirts all the time.

In my 'hood, thare is a SDA church and a JW Kingdom Hall. Seems those cults have hit upon a practical solution that's gone over the heads of many a Christian: when it gets really cold, the women wear SKIRTS OVER PANTS, generally a one-piece jumper. My wife useta run her own sowing business, and she made many of these jumpers for those women. They chose the color and embellishments, if any; my wife could make one in about a half-hour, as she had the patterns for several of'em in her head.

Seems practical to me.

 

[Lacy Evans]

http://www.kjvbaptist.org/html/Doctrine/Pants.html


Here is a good, thorough article.

lacy

 

[I Am Blessed 24]

EXCELLENT ARTICLE Lacy! Thank you for sharing!

 

[robycop3]

Decent article, Lacy, hitting upon an IFB tenet that "if it aint in scripture, it aint official". But it seems to be as much an ad for the KJVO myth as it is about the pants issue. Evidently Pastor Burke glossed over the fact that the KJVO myth aint in Scripture, either, and is a RECENT addition to overall IFB doctrine...and is NOT followed be many an IFB congregation.

I believe the article woulda been much more effective if it had stuck to the subject at hand, but nonetheless it DOES refer to the lack of Scriptural support for the "no pants for women" myth.