Any Other Women Who Wear Only Skirts?

[Annie12]

[quote name='MarysLittleFlower' timestamp='1327869404' post='2377102']
(Inspired by the veiling thread )

I rarely talk about this but lately I've been trying to figure some things out and maybe it could help to talk to other Catholic women about it

For some reason, in the past little while, I've been feeling drawn to wearing skirts rather than trousers. I'm not here to debate the subject, but I thought about how women have always worn skirts until recently, and it's how Mother Mary dressed, and I read how St Padre Pio wished for the women in his church to be always dressed modestly but he didn't agree with them wearing trousers. He would even turn women away from Confession if they wore them, or if their skirts (or any other clothing) were immodest.

I've always worn jeans, so switching to skirts was difficult at first. Also my skirts are kind of longer than what girls my age typically wear (they're all longer than the knee, cover the knee when I'm sitting, etc) and sometimes I do get self conscious and feel like I stand out. All the girls around me wear jeans or leggings: I disagree with the leggings lol, what a strange fashion

Anyways.. I'm just wondering if there are any others like me. And how do you put this into practice in every day life? What if your job requires you to wear trousers, etc? I'm trying to find a job that doesn't really have a "uniform" so I can wear whatever I decide to. But I know that there are many jobs that are not like that.

Any thoughts? thanks
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By the way, the girls who wear leggings without skirts are a fashion disasters to both people who want to be fashionably modest and to the fashion police! lol! I totaly know what you meen. I have been drawn to give up wearing pantaloons and wear skirts instead too. I found an interesting passage on a website ( it talks about the Antichrist but I only payed attention to the highlighted part and I included the whole passage just in case you were interested) :






[left][size=3]The Prophecy of St. Nilus[/size][/left]


[left][size=3][color=#333333][font=Georgia, serif]St. Nilus was one of the many disciples of St. John Chrysostom (347-407). He was an officer at the Court of Constantinople, married, with two sons, and later becamne a priest. His works, including a multitude of letters, consist of denunciations of heresy, paganism, abuses of discipline and crimes, of rules and principles of asceticism. St. Nilus died around the year 430 A.D.; his feast day is 12 November. [/font][/color][/size][/left]


[left][size=3][color=#333333][font=Georgia, serif]The Prophecy [/font][/color][/size][/left]


[left][size=3][color=#333333][font=Georgia, serif]"After the year 1900, toward the middle of the 20th century, [/font][/color][/size][/left]
[left][size=3][color=#ff0000][font=Georgia, serif]the people of that time will become unrecognizable[/font][/color][/size][/left]
[left][size=3][color=#333333][font=Georgia, serif]. When the time for the Advent of the Antichrist approaches, people's minds will grow cloudy from carnal passions, and dishonor and lawlessness will grow stronger. Then the world will become unrecognizable. [/font][/color][/size][/left]
[left][size=3][color=#ff0000][font=Georgia, serif]People's appearances will change, and it will be impossible to distinguish men from women due to their shamelessness in dress and style of hair.[/font][/color][/size][/left]
[left][size=3][color=#333333][font=Georgia, serif]These people will be cruel and will be like wild animals because of the temptations of the Antichrist. There will be no respect for parents and elders, love will disappear, and Christian pastors, bishops, and priests will become vain men, completely failing to distinguish the right-hand way from the left. At that time the morals and traditions of Christians and of the Church will change. People will abandon modesty, and dissipation will reign. Falsehood and greed will attain great proportions, and woe to those who pile up treasures. Lust, adultery, homosexuality, secret deeds and murder will rule in society. At that future time, due to the power of such great crimes and licentiousness, people will be deprived of the grace of the Holy Spirit, which they received in Holy Baptism and equally of remorse. [/font][/color][/size][/left]


[left][size=3][color=#333333][font=Georgia, serif]The Churches of God will be deprived of God-fearing and pious pastors, and woe to the Christians remaining in the world at that time; they will completely lose their faith because they will lack the opportunity of seeing the light of knowledge from anyone at all. Then they will separate themselves out of the world in holy refuges in search of lightening their spiritual sufferings, but everywhere they will meet obstacles and constraints. And all this will result from the fact that the Antichrist wants to be Lord over everything and become the ruler of the whole universe, and he will produce miracles and fantastic signs. He will also give depraved wisdom to an unhappy man so that he will discover a way by which one man can carry on a conversation with another from one end of the earth to the other. At that time men will also fly through the air like birds and descend to the bottom of the sea like fish. And when they have achieved all this, these unhappy people will spend their lives in comfort without knowing, poor souls, that it is deceit of the Antichrist. And, the impious one! -- he will so complete science with vanity that it will go off the right path and lead people to lose faith in the existence of God in three hypostases. [/font][/color][/size][/left]


[left][size=3][color=#333333][font=Georgia, serif]Then the All-good God will see the downfall of the human race and will shorten the days for the sake of those few who are being saved, because the enemy wants to lead even the chosen into temptation, if that is possible... then the sword of chastisement will suddenly appear and kill the perverter and his servants." [/font][/color][/size][/left]


Very interesting!

Edited February 22, 2012 by Annie12

[FutureSister2009]

I would like to wear more skirts, I just need to buy more

[MarysLittleFlower]

that was an interesting prophesy! definitely something to think about.

I just bought a couple skirts on sale recently if anyone knows the store "Laura", they were selling skirts 70 to 80 percent off! and they are good long skirts.

[loveletslive]

how do you avoid chub rub wearing skirts every day...? serious question!

[FutureCarmeliteClaire]

[quote name='loveletslive' timestamp='1330460683' post='2394148']
how do you avoid chub rub wearing skirts every day...? serious question!
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You don't... It hurts... Sigh.

[mysisterisalittlesister]

I have nothing against wearing skirts all the time. NOTHINNG! But sometimes I think pantaloons are a little more modest than skirts. There's a lot less flashing, and sometimes, their a lot more practical, especially if you're a mom. Just my opinion

[i<3LSOP]

[quote name='mysisterisalittlesister' timestamp='1330619296' post='2394959']
I have nothing against wearing skirts all the time. NOTHINNG! But sometimes I think pantaloons are a little more modest than skirts. There's a lot less flashing, and sometimes, their a lot more practical, especially if you're a mom. Just my opinion
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Get used to skirts. You could possibly be wearing a habit.

JK.

Edited March 1, 2012 by i<3LSOP

[Lil Red]

[quote name='TheresaThoma' timestamp='1328548916' post='2382412']
So as far as the pocket issue, I have decided that I am just going to make a couple of my own skirts. (Yay for being able to sew!)
And for Hockety Pockety [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bd5YUEOwlE[/media]
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props! you got it!

[i<3LSOP]

Right now I'm wearing a skirt. They make me feel feminine!

[elizabeth09]

I know. I was talking with someone from last semester and she told me that skirts made her feel odd. She also want to a catholic high school.

[Carmelshrimp]

Personally I think it's possible to look immodest in a skirt as easily as in a pair of jeans. It's to do with style. Even a long skirt can be slinky, clingy and revealing. I do wear skirts quite a bit - usually ankle-length - but I can't honestly say that when I wear my jeans and a big jumper I exactly feel as if I'm flaunting myself. My main worry is usually that I'm very thin and in jeans my legs look skinny - hardly likely to send anybody wild with desire

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[quote name='Carmelshrimp' timestamp='1330686950' post='2395280']
Personally I think it's possible to look immodest in a skirt as easily as in a pair of jeans. It's to do with style. Even a long skirt can be slinky, clingy and revealing. I do wear skirts quite a bit - usually ankle-length - but I can't honestly say that when I wear my jeans and a big jumper I exactly feel as if I'm flaunting myself. My main worry is usually that I'm very thin and in jeans my legs look skinny - hardly likely to send anybody wild with desire
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This made me laugh because it is so 'me'. I hardly look at all immodest or particularly appealing and attractive in jeans, but sometimes they are just so functional and comfortable. When I went to the monastery for a visit, I wore my skirt to Mass always and sometimes to evening Vespers, but the rest of the day I wore jeans, simply because it made sense. The first day there I wore my usual skirt and blouse and sweater for feeding the animals and got hay all over me, and found I had gotten my skirt dirty. Then I realised that the nuns have a 'work habit' that they wear, made out of denim, and they also have a work veil (white) and a cap that some of them wear on top of the veil as well. One nun told me that they don't wear their work habits in the chapel so rather than get changed during the middle of the day, they pray the Little Hours in the smaller parlour instead. For all the other Hours and Mass they wear their black and white habits.

This made me realise that I needed to wear my 'work clothes', i.e. my jeans for working around the farm. I used to have a denim skirt with nice pockets that was perfect for this kind of work, but I gave it away when I went into Carmel the last time so wearing jeans is the best alternative for me. I just think it's important to be practical and to use common sense when dressing and I was told just to bring work clothes with me this time, and something nicer to wear for chapel, so that is what I'm going to do. I will be working on making my habit while I am there, and I assume that they will also have me make a denim work one as well. That will be great, but until then, jeans are my friend!

[HopefulBride]

I am a jeans girl and I usually tend to focus on comfort and style while also erring on the side of modesty. Above all else though, I always choose comfort. Fortunately my comfortable clothes are modest but honestly if they weren't comfortable and didn't allow me to do regular chores and stuff, I wouldn't have picked them.

When I was visiting with the sisters last month, the only time I wore skirts were in chapel or at mass. Often times I would come back from work time with one of the novices and didn't have time to change from my jeans so I would wear my skirt over them.

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[quote name='HopefulBride' timestamp='1331385964' post='2398604']
I am a jeans girl and I usually tend to focus on comfort and style while also erring on the side of modesty. Above all else though, I always choose comfort. Fortunately my comfortable clothes are modest but honestly if they weren't comfortable and didn't allow me to do regular chores and stuff, I wouldn't have picked them.

When I was visiting with the sisters last month, the only time I wore skirts were in chapel or at mass. Often times I would come back from work time with one of the novices and didn't have time to change from my jeans so I would wear my skirt over them.
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One of the nuns at OLR told me that some of them wear p.ants under their habits - but I didn't ask if she meant jeans or not. Maybe she just meant warm longjohn type things but she said it was more comfortable sometimes. I like that.

[cmotherofpirl]

I wish I could feel comfortable in skirts, but I can't, I feel vulnerable in them. I have a closet of them, but when I put on one sooner rather than later I find myself back in my room changing.