[Sloth]

The idea that we wouldn't go out of our way to wear our best for G-d doesn't make sense to me at all.

Define "best," using Scripture. I want specific fabrics, cuts and styles. I want to know that you're making your distinctions based on God's standards, not worldly man-made ones.

So far, you've basically got "wear sackcloth to a funeral." Do you wear sackcloth to funerals?

[Tamar1973]

So far, you've basically got "wear sackcloth to a funeral." Do you wear sackcloth to funerals?

But I don't wear JEANS to a funeral either. I wear black, which is what THIS culture expects of one who goes to a house of mourning.

[nopardons]

People,for centuries,if not millenia,had "SUNDAY CLOTHES"/ Sabbath (for Jews),which were their best clothes.They wore these clothes NOT to impress others,but to show respect to GOD and to the worship of HIM. It was reverential! This never meant that the clothes had to be expensive;however,it did mean that they weren't "work clothes",which really are what jeans are; even those that cost hundreds of dollars.

It used to be common knowledge that people behaved differently, depending upon what they wore. There were school clothes, play clothes, and dress-up/party/church clothes for children and comparable ones for adults. And this was a time,when people did NOT own ,many clothes (even those in the upper middle class and above !); unlike today.