‘Clothes make the man…

…or the woman.’ This is an old proverb that I learned as a high school student in German language class as Kleider machen Leute, literally ‘Clothes make people.’ In our fashion-conscious and paradoxically laid back dress code culture, where we seem to reach for the extremes, no one wanting to just dress ‘normally’—because there is no such thing as ‘normal’—the topic of Aunt Melanie's new blog Church Dress Code, subtitled A Paper on Proper Clothing for the Christian Woman, will seem totally out of touch, if not out of line. But the author is no doctrinaire pundit, but a careful and balanced thinker, researcher and writer, who just happens to be a woman following Jesus. This is recommended reading, as something essential that has been neglected, and no matter what the current state of culture happens to be, here in America or anywhere in the ‘Christian’ world, we need to have these truths again brought to our attention. Not all revolutions are irreversible. Some may need to be reversed if a culture is to survive at all. In this blog Aunt Melanie has provided us with a well-grounded sketch of Christian womanhood written from within the species—not men telling women what they should do, as in some religious cultures, but as ‘woman to woman’—the other half of the Body of Christ. That is how it should, no, must be. Glory to God.

If you missed the link above, to read Church Dress Code, click HERE.