Since you became a Christian does it affect how you dress?
By pastorkayte
@pastorkayte (2255)
United States
March 5, 2010 5:36pm CST
I noticed that since I became a Christian the way I dressed and saw how I looked, no more wearing short dresses or low cut tops, I now found a way to be well dressed, fashionable and conservative. Did your spirituality change what you wear. By the way no one made me change I just felt the need to.
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@BinaryKat (735)
• United States
6 Mar 10
I had always dressed modestly even before I became born again at 13. My parents has raised us to dress appropriately and when I was in my teens, I never got to wear mini skirts, low cut tops etc like other girls at that age. I still don't now and every top I wear I always make sure not too show too much cleavage or wear stuff that is too tight. But I do try to dress a little nicer at church though.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
6 Mar 10
Well you do. I never was one to go too far out, but I found I did not wear as much make up and I went into more conservative although because I am a bit busty, if I wore scooped or V tops they showed the top of my cleavage, That was if I wore tops to the top of my neck, like sweaters, it emphasized my top and made it more prominent. However I was the one who wore the latest fashions even if they did not look right on me, so I toned down.
I do not know whether it was because I was now a Christian or because I became one when I was in my fifties and those short short skirts no longer looked good on me.
I think you sort of become more moderate in all things and that includes clothes because you want to make good impression on others to win them for Christ.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
8 Mar 10
You're welcome. We cannot help how God made us. Some of us HE made rather skinny and some HE made rather curvy. The trouble is that many think that once you become a Christian you have to wear dresses down to your ankles and keep yourself covered up like one of those Muslim women (sans the veil of course). The point is that if I have a large bosum, I am not going to have surgery to make myself a more acceptable looking Christian in their eyes. Just as someone who can wear a mini skirt is going to eat a lot so that she does not look as attractive and therefore will no longer wear a short skirt. Believe me, I did this because someone was always trying to make my skirts a little longer even though they were just above the knees.
Oh yes, and I could not lose that weight.
But wearing dark tights can make a short skirt more decent.(I am at the age when I look better with my skirts a little longer, so I do not have to worry about the trouble I had when I was in my 20s of folding the legs just right.) And I think that many once you go to the extreme of from short skirt and top showing almost except your n*pple to a granny dress makes them wonder that you did something you were ashamed of and you are really a bad girl.
I found that if you have the skirt a little longer (just above the knee vs thigh high( and you cover the top a bit more, they know that your conversion is real. That is because they realize that you are struggling. Whereas if you go to extremes, you are making a show of things.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
13 Mar 10
Thanks for the best response. I found out the hard way that when I did go overboard in changing that people thought I did not really mean it. i also found out that God knows my heart, and knows the struggles I am going through.
@pastorkayte (2255)
• United States
6 Mar 10
Thank you I so appreciate this honest answer.
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
6 Mar 10
No it does not have any effect of how I dress. I have been a Christian all my life so no change was called for and dressed how I pleased. I dress for the occasion I probable would not wear extra short shorts or anything extremely revealing because I have other occasion to wear these type of clothes. I thought it was only if one belonged to sect they had to dress differently.
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
6 Mar 10
BTW what were you before you were Christian? Did you have to wear a difference type of clothing?
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
6 Mar 10
Having lived for 4 years as a Christian woman in a Muslim country I can very well understand why you converted. My mode of dress is more elegant than what is currently the "in" style.
@SupeFly (14)
• France
7 Mar 10
I believe it is because of the holy spirit that lives inside us, once we become Christian, that speaks to us about what is inappropriate or wrong.
I am a 25 year old male and never really had a thing for short skirts ;) but one thing I can say is that I never really had eyes for girls in revealing clothing, it somehow showed me who they really where when they would relish in the fact that guys was looking at them with lust. The Bible says : But I (God) say unto you, That whoever looketh on a women to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. (Mat 5:28)
And I believe it was God that gave me my beautiful wife, for the very first day I saw her she was wearing a long dress and no women has ever looked more beautiful in so much clothing. :)
Have a great day and God bless.
