Hypocritical about Pants?

I may have caused confusion by stating in one article that the Bible does not have a specific condemnation of pants, and then writing a letter pleading with a friend to not wear pants in church. I was not speaking out of both sides of my mouth. I would like to clarify my position on the matter.

First, I do not, as I stated, find anywhere in scripture that says what a woman can or cannot wear besides the requirement of it being modest (and no cross-dressing). We have to remember that different cultures wore different types of dress during the writing of the Bible, just as they do today. Obviously not all of them would have been acceptable to God, just as today. So we are left to consider the matter for ourselves. I do not think a church has the place of telling a woman what to wear. I would love to be part of a church where the women only wear dresses, but because of personal conviction and not legalism.

I do wish that all women would become convicted about clothing. I have not seen a modest pair of pants on a woman. They do not exist in stores today. They inevitably show off her rear. That's why so many songs talk about women in jeans. They show everything. And apparently we have 'evolved' so quickly that the waist of a woman dropped 6 inches in 10 years! Even dress pants are tailored so that the pleats down the back of the legs draw the eye right to the seam between them. And don't get me started on shorts! Shorts and pants cannot be considered modest in my opinion because they attract attention to the body. I loved the interview with the Duggar family, because their philosophy is to dress so as to draw attention to the countenance. Amen!

When I was in High School I wore REALLY crazy clothes. Not the half-naked kind, but I liked my dad's dress shirts with a dress jacket and skirt, and lots of plaid. I was plaid crazy. We had a free clothing center at our church and we would find items as we were sorting that were just my style- in other words, they wouldn't put them out because no one else would ever take them. SO... I got to keep the crazy clothes. I had dresses from the 50's and black and white saddle shoes. I guess I was retro. I also had elephant pants, which were very loose everywhere. Those would be modest in my opinion, but where do you find them? I am not saying modest pants have never existed, I am saying they disappear with the fashion trend to go skin tight. And it is possible to have fun with clothes without exposing anything.

Many women will wear culottes for a day out, and I think that is fine as well. I am not saying it is a sin to wear something between your legs. Where I see the sin is when it shows off enough to entice a man to look. You are then stealing from another woman. You are taking the attention, admiration, and sexual focus that are rightly hers as a wife and plumping up your own ego.

And I have heard so many women say that men just need to learn to control themselves, and I feel that is a bold-faced cop-out! It's an excuse to continue causing others to fall. It's the same attitude that allows people to say aborted babies are in a better place, or that voting is futile because Satan controls the world. Many unsaved people will tell you they are good people, because they compare themselves to the murderers and rapists in prison. But there are 10 commandments, and wanting men to look at you with lust is making your own desires an idol, which is breaking the first two in one stroke!

Now, I do own pants for the winter when I have to go chasing the horses. I generally wear them under a skirt, which also provides extra warmth. Right now my oldest daughter is on the hay wagon stacking bales in a pair of cotton pants. For safety reasons, she needs to have her legs covered, and two layers in this heat would make her ill. She is young, not developed yet, and not out in 'public', except to those driving by who have super vision or something. The clothes are also loose-fitting, patterned so as not to draw attention to the wrong places, and of a material that does not cling.

There are also dresses and skirts that certainly are not modest. So saying wear dresses only still won't cover it. They can be too tight, too short, too low cut, too sheer,etc. And because of the trend for so long of girls wearing pants, many of them do not know how to sit in a skirt or dress. They are accustomed to being able to sit with legs apart, which is where the argument that pants are more modest comes from because at least then you can't see their underwear. The more girls wear pants, the less feminine they become. And what man wants a semi-male woman for a wife? They want feminine women (unless they have had their desires warped by the world).

So, there's my rant on pants and such. IT is not a law. It is not a commandment. It is a plea from a woman who does not wish to share her husband with anyone for any reason. I'm the one who has covenanted my life, my service, my affection, and my desires to him. I mother his children, I work along side him, I keep his home. I keep his faults to myself, I earnestly seek to bring him pleasure in all things, I swell with love when I see him, even if he is sweaty and dirty from work. Why should I have to share his attention or thoughts with anyone else? He is mine. Just as God is a jealous God, I also am a jealous wife, not willing to share what is rightfully mine with a whore

Q: Whoa, tight jeans = whore?? That's a mighty strong word.

A: "WHORE, v.i. supra. To have unlawful sexual commerce; to practice lewdness."

"...Then, Hosea applies the story of his life to the People of God, to the Kingdoms of the North and the South, to Israel and Judah, and to you and me: Every time you and I go after money, or power, or pleasures, we prostitute against God… we throw ourselves into the arms and care of other gods, and that's prostitution against God!… with every sin, we become slaves of the Devil, but God byes us back, not for 15 shekels, but with His own Blood, and brings us back to his home, not as slaves, but as children of God, as His inheritance!… to make a feast for us every time we repent! (Lk.15:22-23)...

"But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children" 2 Peter 2:12-14