Have you heard this one?
 

A few months ago I started a thead with what people perceived apostolics to be. Not to rehash because everyone has their own option. Plus it is a good excuse to check the archives.

In that thread I mentioned a co-worker who gave me her definition of apostolic pretty much confirmed with an average outsider would label an apostolic.
Here is a twist I never saw coming. The same lady gave me her definition of what an apostolic is has a different defintion for pentecostals.

She is sittiing in the break room telling us about a conversation between she and her sister about the coulottes (sp? to tired to check) she wore to work. My co-worker said my "sister took one look at me and said that I looked like a pentecostal".

Has anyone heard that being a part of the definition of ''PENTECOSTAL"? The key word is "Pentecostal" not "apostolic". I'll admit that is the first time I've ever heard coulottes (again sp?) indentified with pentecostals.

Has anyone else heard similar remarks? What are the ramifications when a pentecostal's is defined as such?

I'm sorry if I disapoint the masses if they expect a acerbic cut against pentecostals. I am methodical in my research. Most who know me know I'm pretty solid on research. There is not enough anectdotal evidence to suggest society thinks all pentecostal women wear coulottes(I would not be offended if someone corrects my spelling). I hope to provide an interesting topic.

Using that line of definition, an Apostolic might be a plain faced hefty woman in a long bluejean skirt wearing a bun. "Now THERE is an Apostolic," one might say. But, that might would define only 50% of the outsider's mind. How do you suppose the outsider might define the other gender of Apostolics?

But, since the key word is "Pentecostal," very often to the outsider, depending on the region of the country, there is no difference.

Around these parts Appostolic is not used but Pentecostal.... I am not sure I had heard Apostolic until I started visiting the forums.

coulottes are allowed by some pentecostal pastors and are worn by the women in those churches.

Other pentecostal pastors preach against culottes as a split legged garment or mens apparel and there fore the women of their churches gotta sneakl around if they wear them.

Men's apparell....sheeshhhh...like a man would wear ladies culottes.

They would be identified as Pentecostal around these parts. Between Pentecostals when one is "spotted" they often say "There's a Penny!"

Speaking of culottes, my kids were here for dinner yesterday and we were talking .... reminiscing around the table. I always love that. :) My daughter who played a number of sports in school was saying how much she hated having to wear those things.

My son said that some of the boys used to laugh and joke about how they loved the fact the Pentecostal girls wore them because you could see up their legs, etc.

Our daughter was given permission to wear gym shorts in Grade 10. We relented and allowed her to do that. Well, her brothers were allowed to after all. ;) She loved sports and played basketball, badminton, softball, volleyball, etc. during high school but she was saying that basketball pretty much 'defined' her in HS.

The gym/basketball shorts she wore really were more modest and made more sense than culottes.

Anyone ever have to wear culottes with a flap or piece of material over the front and back so it looked like a skirt?!:killinme

Arkansas Camp voted to allow them to be worn at camp one year!

YES!!! My MeMaw Made all of mine!!! LOL!!! When Culottes came back in style my sister and I made a promise that we would never wear them again!!!! LOL!!!!

I guess they would want to if they were trying to look like a woman. I know a young man who dresses like a woman even to the undies and makeup, jewelery and hairstyle. :roseglasses

yup. barb that was the"law" in a church I attended many years ago. Even then they were really frowned upon...
in other words if you're backslid enough you think you gotta wear cullottes wear them with a flap to make em look like a dress.

our girls , when they would paticipate in wintrer activities lke skating / skiing / sledding were forced to wear an old dress over the insulated pants they were allowed to wear for warmth.

I always thought how stupid are we?? If the "mens" apparrel they had on for warmth was an abomination, (as is wrongly preached) How would putting a dress over the pants UNABOMINATE them.

Well..they were always weak on THE MESSAGE. :killinme

In days gone by, I may have agreed w/ bro. strange about regional definitions. In recent times the word pentecostal had included Rod Parsley, TD Jakes, Tommy Tenney. Jimmy Swagggart is considered Pentecostal. I never heard a dress code mentioned with pentecostalism before while it is the first thing mentioned when an '' outsider '' defines apostolic.

We are defined as pentecostals in our area also not apostolic, people say oh yeah you are the people that don't believe in tv! they don't say anything about dress code just that cursed tv ha! ha! although we don't have a tv we do have a monitor another penecostal joke. Guess you'd had to been there!

Same here. Also we called them Goucho's in the 70's. Yee Haa

The skirts.....not the people!!!

Men do wear em.

.......of course they are usually worn somewhere between the knees and the butt, most often made from a jean type material, and sporting a significant amount of "bling bling".

It is also not unusual to see on prominent display, ones extravagantly colored (and also still to large) underwear, or "boxers yo!"

Oh contraire my dear,That would not be a young man. That would be an effeminate male, and quite possibly depending on the severity, an abomination.