I Believe Christian Women Should Wear Dresses And Skirts Only

@Anna99: yes me[image deleted]

@MrsPeterEvans: cute dresses, not in fashion but cute 😊

@Anna99: I had to wear skirts and dresses growing up. And no not fashionable ones ut what my father thought were suitably girly, cute or pretty!

Do you forward this tradition?

@Anna99: not sure I understand

For your own kids?

@Anna99: oh sorry. Yes my husband eants any daughter to wear dresses or skirts only and sons to be in short trousers until 12 or so

@MrsPeterEvans:

Why? It's sod-all to do with Christianity and everything to do with heavy paternalism, isn't it?

Short trousers until "12 or so". Well, if they feel humiliated, or are bullied by other children, they'll know whom to blame and quite possibly come to resent.

My parents would not buy me long trousers for school until I entered the Third Form, at 13 - I was one of very few still in short trousers by the end of the Second Form. I hated it because it made me feel much less than my real age; part of a background responsible eventually for me not feeling very close to my parents. If I had had children of my own I most certainly would not foisted upon them stupid "rules" designed to keep them immature.

That was in 1965. It is now 2017.

Just because your parents had crackpot dress rules (or any other pointless strictures for the Hell of it) doesn't mean you have to force the same on your own children.

@ArishMell: well you have your view but my father also was in shorts but until the end of third form in a grammar school amd that was 1970s. My husband just has an old fashioned approach

@MrsPeterEvans:

Yes - but because you and your husband's parents treated you badly does NOT excuse you both intending to humiliate your own children. In fact I'd have thought you'd want very much to avoid visiting the same on them. If you don't like children, don't have any!

This thread started as an amusing look at an eccentric link between (para-?) Christianity and fashion - some of your photos invoke a cross between Granny's Cast-offs Sale and audition for an am-dram production of [i]The Sound of Music[/i] - but then took a rather unhealthy turn, advocating what I see frankly as child abuse by petty rules and wilful humiliation.

@ArishMell: there is nothing wrong with strict rules

@MrsPeterEvans:

ONLY if they serve a genuine, constructive purpose. Rules that help no-one but the ruler's ego, are pointless. Strictness for the sake of it, including the sort of humiliating dress-code you seem content to allow your husband to enforce, is bullying.

@Anna99: "not in fashion". Ouch 😅