I don’t know how any woman can wear pants during pregnancy. You have to either fit them below the baby, or pull them up and possibly squeeze the baby, which leads to diarrhea and cramping.
Dresses contain crumbs very well until you can reach a low trash can.
When a woman wears a dress, there is no danger of showing lower back skin or underwear when the woman bends over, and if the dress is modest, she will not show her chest to anybody in any position.
Dresses are wonderful if you have trouble finding a skirt that fits right. Loose dresses are incredibly comfortable in almost any weather.
Dresses provide a much better silhoutte when both men and woman are pictured together. They are also on every woman’s restroom I have seen that has a picture.
Dresses are extremely handy when you are prone to making a mess, e.g. if you have a baby on your bladder or you have a bladder control problem, or when you get to the toilet in time but the toilet is very poorly designed. You have to lift up your dress in order to sit down, so it is very difficult to soil it.
Dresses are definitely woman’s dress so they are approved by Deuteronomy and the Church. Mary always appears to her children in full length dresses with proper necklines and no slits. She is the most beautiful woman, so why not imitate her and please Our Lord instead of changing, uncomfortable fashions?
Little girls are so beautiful in dresses! If you always clothe them in dresses, they will not want to wear pants, and they will be naturally more ladylike and feminine than if they were raised in mostly pants like I was.
Long dresses (past the knee, ideally to the ankles, past the elbows) with high necklines (but not choking) and no slits or see-through fabric are encouraged by the Church and will always make a woman look good if she takes care of her body and her clothes.
Corinne….I have news for you….my Sarah ONLY wore cute, frilly dresses until 1st grade…..that’s all SHE wanted to wear. Then in 1st grade SHE decided she liked pants better because it was easier to do things like run and play with her friends!
I keep reading and seeing that girls raised in dresses have no problem running and playing in dresses. Catherine will be homeschooled so there should be much less of an issue with following the crowd. I hope she will continue to accept wearing dresses so well when she sees her brother David in pants and all-in-one baby outfits. It is part of teaching her the difference between boys and girls, and dresses not pants is something she can easily learn at this age – and it pleases Jesus and Mary!
My girls have no trouble playing at anything in their mid-calf length play dresses. They are almost 5 and 3 1/2. And my 10 month old is having no trouble crawling in dresses either.