As Ms. Przybyszewski explains: The arrival of the Baby Boom generation injected an unprecedented number of young people into American society. The result was a “youth quake” in culture and the rise of fashion designers who catered to the young. Their sometimes mindless logic could be summed up in a remark by Mary Quant, the London designer who invented the miniskirt: “When you break a rule, you automatically arrive at something different and this is fun.”
All of this "fun" resulted in the following: "Pants on women further blurred the rules of dress. Before the mid-1960s, women wore them only for sports, lounging and dirty work. Then Yves St. Laurent introduced pants as luxury formalwear. Students took note and challenged school dress codes forbidding pants on girls. American women were buying 45 million pairs of pants a year by 1969."
And then the Women's Movement came along: The final blow to home economics courses for girls came in the 1970s in the wake of the women’s movement, which criticized any attention to women’s appearance as retrograde. Rules for appropriate dress—once as essential a part of a girl’s education as manners—would no longer be passed onto the next generation .... following the dictate of 1960s fashion photography, “the weirder, the better”—often present only the spectacular, the slovenly and the seductive. Left out is what we might wear to work in order to look competent, or to an important celebration.
Sad to say, this "undressing" mindset of American women (as well as men), with respect to proper dress, has seeped into the Lord's church. This article by brother Kevin Cauley, reminds us of what constitutes appropriate dress when we approach the Lord in our worship to Him (also see video).
—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets
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