Formal Dress Codes In Fundamental Religious Groups
The following '3' groups: Jehovah's Witnesses, Holy Pentecosts,most SDAs, and Mormons follow very strict and formal dress codes. In all '3' of these men must wear dress shirts, ties and slacks and long hair or facial hair of any kind is forbidden or at the very least considered "worldy", or heathen. In all '3' women must wear skirts or dresses and can not wear pants.
JWs & SDAs
Jehovah's Witnesses have a very rigid formal dress code to stick to at all their religious services and the SDA's magazine Signs Of The Times has also written much against non-formal dress codes at their services. Men must wear slacks, dress shirts and a tie and a dress coat 'if' they wish to participate in any JW meetings. Men can not have any faicial hair or long hair. Women must wear skirts or dresses and are not to wear pants. Jeans and t-shirts at religious services are consider "wordly".There is alot of contridiction in JW's dress codes. On one hand they claim they follow the tradition of the land they live in...and yet I would ask: "In what time period? The 1950's? In the 1950's people were so formal that a man actually would put on a tie to go to a cafe. But times have changed.
Pentacostals
Pentecostals have even more rigid formal dress codes than JW's. Men must wear long sleeve dress shirts and ties and slacks. Here again facial hair and long hair is forbidden. Women must wear long skirts, even OUTside religious services. Women can not wear make up at all or else be considered whores. No jewlery all all for either sexes. Even more so than JW's, Pentecostals extend much of their rigid formal dress codes to even OUTside of the church! For men to wear short sleeved shirts is considered "inmodest." And neither sex is to wear any type of necklaces.
LDS
Mormons, much like the 2 other above groups, say men must wear whote dress shirts with ties and slacks and women must wear dresses or skirts.
The Way People Really Dress TODAY
The Bible says to be "Modest in one's dress." There is NOTHING 'inmodest about the way these two models are dressed. Thus there is no REAL bibical backing for rigid religious groups strict formal dress codes found amoung Jehovah's witnesses, Mormons, and Holy Pentecostals. It would seem that the real reason that these religions keep to such old fashioned ideas about formal dress codes has not so much to do with what the Bible REALLY says..Rather it is about the REALLY old men who run these religions, and about THEM forcing their early 1900's Victorian age ideas on todays people.
Thus, in reality, you can say that the suite and tie and granny dresses of today are the scribes royal purple robes of yesterdays.
Who Dresses Like THIS TODAY? To dress so formal like this is look out of place like a monk wearing an red robe.
Back To Main Topics
Back To Main Page
