tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post3423312690910135766..comments2024-03-23T09:59:53.293+00:00Comments on LINEN ON THE HEDGEROW: What to wear at Mass or, rather, what not to wearRichard Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-2140448710412903332011-10-24T11:08:49.206+01:002011-10-24T11:08:49.206+01:00I always ask people when they come to mass dressed...I always ask people when they come to mass dressed like...er...that.<br /><br />"Would you wear this-and-that for an all-important meeting at the White House?"<br /><br />"No...!??"<br /><br />"Well then, don't you think the Son of God deserves the same, if not a greater respect."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07439614087264567341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-2322767941871077992011-10-23T02:29:03.345+01:002011-10-23T02:29:03.345+01:00I've been thinking of this topic lately. I hat...I've been thinking of this topic lately. I hate the trend of strapless wedding gowns too.Lenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09173616693453942166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-35852822748486094342011-10-22T15:47:10.841+01:002011-10-22T15:47:10.841+01:00That's exactly right, and that's the only ...That's exactly right, and that's the only "rule" you need. If you dress like a Mennonite in a drab floor-length skirt, shapeless-on-purpose jacket and ostentatious mantilla, in most congregations you'll be drawing attention to yourself every bit as much as if you'd pitched up in leggings and a skimpy top.Anagnostishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03706938507885553293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-21623809256875180162011-10-22T10:19:05.539+01:002011-10-22T10:19:05.539+01:00Actually it's more than dress code, which has ...Actually it's more than dress code, which has relaxed in tandem with the Mass morphing from sacrifice into banquet. It's really about catechesis. <br />Without loading it entirely on to the priests, it should have been made clear as attire became more casual that there were boundaries to what is worn (or barely worn) in church. <br />I've seen men walking unchallenged around Westminster Cathedral wearing their baseball caps and it's now de rigueur for brides to marry in their nighties.<br />It seems to me that the casualisation of dress began at schools as far back as the 1960s with trendy I'm-your-mate teachers and which then passed through to kids. Now in any town or city on a warm day you see office workers dressed as though for the beach.<br />Formal dress has largely gone out the window giving rise to a host of sartorial horrors. The thing is people genuinely believe they look good. See the posts on the Altcatholicah blog, frothing with high dudgeon. <br />The dear nuns told we girls that we did not go to Mass to draw attention to ourselves and that has informed my own dress ever since.<br />At my father's Requiem Mass the middle-aged male lay reader took to the lectern in tracksuit bottoms and trainers. It caused more than a little eye-popping among my family and friends, (mostly non-Catholic), at the insult to my father. How much more insulting to Christ.Gentyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05569143943867323153noreply@blogger.com