tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230245579458786956.post2417761620061080067..comments2022-11-19T02:21:40.864-09:00Comments on The Latter-day Snark: It…It was the trousers, really.David Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881388186547426677noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230245579458786956.post-26029240350608295182010-08-07T19:42:48.865-08:002010-08-07T19:42:48.865-08:00Okay—i’d forgotten about the fornication pants thi...Okay—i’d forgotten about the fornication pants thing. I’d assumed it was something you’d heard someone say at church or somesuch.<br /><br />And i’m still not sold on one’s clothing having an effect on one’s attitudes, except that we’re trained to associate certain types of clothing with certain situations. I don’t see how there’s anything <b>inherently</b> different about different sorts of clothing in that way.<br /><br />(I mean, consider all the Polynesians up here who wear lava-lavas—skirts on guys, basically, from a Western set of assumptions—to church, and it’s not a problem at all.)David Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12881388186547426677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230245579458786956.post-42945553953803796212010-08-03T02:42:16.726-08:002010-08-03T02:42:16.726-08:00I know for myself at least I sit much more quietly...I know for myself at least I sit much more quietly and nicely if I'm wearing a skirt or dress. It's the attitude.<br /><br />And you've seriously never heard the fornication pants story? Apparently Brigham Young (BEFORE he joined the church, btw) was so appalled by those new-fangled jeans that he referred to them as fornication pants. See, at the time, trousers didn't have flies/buttons on the front. They were generally held up with suspenders making access to the private parts (and, presumably, peeing) a bit difficult. Jeans had flies/buttons and so access was much easier, hence BY calling them fornication pants. The longer version of the story is in the book called Jeans.Heather the Mama Dukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03314177816405887405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230245579458786956.post-8631568684672215482010-08-02T21:39:19.693-08:002010-08-02T21:39:19.693-08:00Fornication pants?!?
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Fo...<i>Fornication pants</i>?!?<br /><br />I sense a story—do tell.<br /><br />For my part, i’m not even certain a dress or skirt would be “ideal”—we get weirdly hung up on clothing details in this church, and that’s one i seriously don’t get.<br /><br />(Stuff like ties and such, i get that even though i don’t like them at all, but hangups about dresses versus pants on women, that i completely don’t understand.)David Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12881388186547426677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230245579458786956.post-91072181010202279302010-07-31T10:57:29.777-08:002010-07-31T10:57:29.777-08:00Darn. I thought this was going to be about jeans ...Darn. I thought this was going to be about jeans aka fornication pants.<br /><br />While wearing a dress/skirt would be ideal, wouldn't it make much more sense for a woman in slacks to go into the chapel to retrieve the child than to just let him run amuck? I mean surely he was being less than reverent in there... Sometimes you gotta go with the lesser of two evils (though I wouldn't categorize a little kid running amuck OR going into the chapel in slacks to retrieve him evil).<br /><br />Fornication pants on the other hand...Heather the Mama Dukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03314177816405887405noreply@blogger.com