I think a dress or skirt is more modest on a woman than most pants I've seen today. Ladies, I'm a healthy man, trust me when I say this...pants are designed to accentuate various aspects of your body that we guys are attracted to. Men are far more visual creatures than women...that's why Sports Illustrated Swimsuit sells out everywhere and Playboy is sold in nearly every book store. Don't get me wrong...sometimes dresses and skirts can be just as immodest. But more often a dress or skirt can be both stylish and modest where most pants today aren't. So I side with the conservative brethren in that I believe women should wear modest dresses or skirts.

In my opinion the dresses and skirts are about modesty. I don't believe you'll go to Hell for wearing pants. I don't believe it's a "sin" of any kind. But most pants I've seen are immodest. Maybe ladies don't see what men see when they see a woman in pants so it might be difficult for you to understand so I'm not going to rant against you if you don't understand. If I were a pastor I would admonish modesty and express how I believed dresses and skirts are more modest on women. If you wished to wear pants to church, I wouldn't harass you or make you feel unwelcome. I would try to temper any statement made from the pulpit about pants with some love and grace acknowledging that some might be wearing pants, but his is how I felt as a preacher. If the pants (or dress) were too immodest in my opinion, as a pastor I'm obligated to do something. I think I'd ask my wife to talk to you about it privately when you're weren't wearing the article of clothing. If you continued wearing it I might have her mention it again, but I still wouldn't throw you out. We might have a "Modesty and Holiness Women's Meeting" to devote entirely to issues women face regarding modesty and outward holiness.

And if all that didn't work to help you grow in our church...I guess you'd just be that lady that catches the eyes of the men and makes the other wives uncomfortable. Just try not to vex us too bad. But by the time it got here...odds are you'd make some adjustments. If you were adamant about pants, maybe we could agree that you at least wear a modest dress or skirt to church services. We'd just wait on the Lord together on this. Normally a willing and sincere heart comes around in time.