The first time my mom saw a woman in church without a hat she thought the world was coming to an end. Now I give out bulletins at the door at my church, and I often have to avert my eyes to avoid appearing to ogle low-cut tops and butt-high hems. Eye contact......eye contact......
Most of the women at the Anglican Church we visited for a christening on Easter were wearing hats. The church we attended in Atlanta had a large number of women who wore hats or something lacy on their heads. The church we attend in Raleigh not many.
Yeah well I miss men being men. Three years ago when my son was a newborn I sat cross legged on the floor and fed him during Christmas eve mass. This year I did the same with my daughter. We attend mass every week yet have no place to sit during Christmas and Easter masses. I have yet to be offered a seat by an able bodied male.
I adore hats! There is nowhere to buy them locally where I live. Any good online shops?
Went to 9AM Mass on Easter Sunday and one lady out of about 200 attendees wore an Easter Bonnet. Same caught my eye as it was an old tradition to wear bonnets in my time as a Catholic many years ago. I commented this to my wife(remembering how she,her sisters and my sisters wore the most beautiful hats at Easter)and we both reminisced about it.
Jesus wanted people to attend, rich and poor alike.
People dress like slobs in my church-shorts, jeans, sweat pants and most of the younger girls wear tight hip hugger jeans or those tight and short body hugging dresses.
I wear a suit and tie 5 days per week on my job and refuse to wear one at church. It's crammed down our necks at work-clothes have to be a certain color, style, ties have to be a certain pattern etc. I dress in Dockers/golf shirt or a button down when going to church. I did wear a tie on Sunday.
I have told people if I kick the bucket I want to be in the clothes I wear at the gym-one of my favorites places to be in life. T-shirt, gym pants and tennis shoes.
I hate dressing in a suit and tie, but I see the author’s point.
I was looking through an elderly CT relative’s scrapbook, and the photos of the procession in a traditional 1940s church were breathtaking.
It’s inarguable that much has been lost.
At one of our local (predominantly white parish) churches, there are quite a few women who wear mantillas. That’s at the Latin Mass, so maybe to be expected of more traditional type congregants. Similarly, the men at the Latin Mass are mostly dressed in suits. That’s a city church. The suburban church Latin Mass is more casual.
I have noticed a tendency among my daughter’s contemporaries (20-30 somethings) to wear hats at every opportunity. Church, weddings, anything that requires a bit of ‘dress up.’ They love wearing hats. So, it may be a swinging pendulum.
I had always found it odd that women could wear hats in church but if a man did it was considered bad form.
So hope that your foot is better.
I would love to wear a hat to Mass, but no other women do, so I would feel as if I was calling attention to myself.
Fondly remember the days when ladies and girls wore hats to church. I, too, miss seeing everyone make the extra effort to dress up for church and for other occasions.
I grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, and, up until I was in college, we would not have dreamed of visiting Baltimore — going downtown — without dressing to the nines. We did not wear hats, but we wore heels and stockings and gloves with dresses or suits.