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Let us suppose that some kind of "modesty craze" happened and worldly people started dressing like ultra con holiness standard people. What would the UC pastors tell thier people to wear since "we don't look like the world or dress like them."?

yeah, I'm bored and when I am my mind goes into warped drive.:nutso


:doggyrun

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As opposed to warp drive?

:heeheehee

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Actually, maxi's are back in now....so, we'll see.

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I never understood the 'we don't dress like the world' idea since skirts and dresses are made by worldly designers and not Apostolic ones!!

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I can only agree with the warped drive part

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I used to have a pastor who preached against maxis. He preached against hemlines varying at all. Find one spot and stay there, stop following the whims of the world.

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A couple of thoughts on that:

A few years ago "maxi coats' and "maxi dresses" became popular.
One local pastor considered maxi coats "worldly" until his daughter got one.


Quite a few years ago "colored" hose (as opposed to sheer stockings) became popular. One preacher commented that if he had preached that the ladies in the church had to wear them, they would have rebelled. But because they became popular, the ladies began to wear them.

Back in the late nineteen fifties or early sixties one Easter "sack" dresses were the rage --in the world and, of course, in the church. One pastor in Chicago preached a sermon on "The Sin of the Sack." Actually, they were baggy and did not reveal a woman's shape so you'd a thought preachers woulda liked them.

I've been around a while and have seen things come and go and I realize that lots of our "holiness" preaching is kinda silly. I remember when mustaches were not an issue in our churches (neither White or African American). Then later on facial hair became an issue in some white churches. Now it's even OK on the platform at GC.

Same with sideburns. Look at some of the old timers with their sideburns. Then sideburns went away. Then they came back and one local preacher told his members that sideburns could only go as low as where the ear wax comes out. Now, who even pays attention to sideburn length?

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That is easy.

Jedi robes.

Men.....
http://www.issendai.com/lifeskills/j...s_in_robes.jpg


...and women!
http://www.starfirephoenix.net/Images/sw/jedi/jedi6.jpg

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so you don't agree about a "modesty craze"?
BTW, whatever happened to the "straight edge" fad?
:doggyrun

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Last year I went to a UACoJC camp meeting in Ohio.
Lots of ladies were wearing flip flops.
Years ago that would be unthinkable at the UPC church where I used to go.

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They could just preach against see through fabric, bead work, certain prints, slits, shiny fabrics, brightly colored fabrics, skirts long enough to trip over (or, say, anything that comes within a certain measure of the ankle), or the skirts being form fitting....

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Everything old is new again!! ;)

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Eccles.1:9-11
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

10 Is there anything of which one can say,
"Look! This is something new"?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.

11 There is no remembrance of men of old,
and even those who are yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow.

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Where have I been? I have no idea what these things are, the only thing I can think of with Maxi has nothing to do with style, at least I hope not.

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That was my thoguht when Maxi was mentioned! I don't thinkthose should be visible to be preached for or against! LOL.

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Agreed.

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;)

A 'maxi' is a floor-length skirt or dress.

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Bring on the Apostolic Burkha Babes...

http://www.alhannah.com/images/produ...142/detail.jpg

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Might be a bomb under there you never know....

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or a bombshell...:thumbsup

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You beat me to it.