Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jhpb@garage.att.com (Joseph H Buehler) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: QUESTION FASHION Message-ID: Date: 9 Jun 91 19:22:55 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 22 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article henning@acsu.buffalo.edu (Karl forgot Henning) writes: >... I think the >basic Biblical teaching is that men should not dress like women and women >should not dress like men. The garments that men or women should not >wear will vary from one society to another and from one era to another. From exactly what texts is this curious dictum distilled? Deuteronomy 22:5: A woman shall not be clothed with man's apparel, neither shall a man use women's apparel: for he that doeth these things is abominable before God. There are a fair number of Catholics attached to the traditions of the Church who are dead set against women wearing pants. (I am one of them!) Fashions and modesty are to some extent things that change from age to age. But I think we've gone too far in our society. The bikini and cut- off shorts have to go, in particular.