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Latter-day Saint Leaders Issue Update To Dress Standards For Sister Missionaries https://ksltv.com/405314/latter-day-saint-leaders-issue-update-dress-standards-sister-missionaries/ ” class=”bbcode_url”> https://ksltv.com/405314/latter-day-saint-leaders-issue-update-dress-standards-sister-missionaries/ The long lost practice of sister missionaries wearing pants has finally been restored in these latter-days.
This kind of goes along with the things my missionary son said was told to them by a traveling general authority…that the church recognizes it needs to relax on some things to be more practical. It wouldn’t surprise me if “white shirts” is also going to be something that goes. For one reason, the typical white shirt and tie look is a target…for good or bad…but can be a safety issue in some places.
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :clap: :clap: :clap: With the zika scare a couple years back some missions already allowed sisters to wear pants, even required them in some cases. This makes total sense to me. I would love to have been a fly on the wall when the local MP got this news, but then again he knows without a shadow of a doubt and with every fiber of his being that RMN is a prophet so strict obedience and compliance would seem to apply to him.
Thank goodness we’re moving away from the “pioneer woman” look! I’d also be glad to see suits for the Elders go. I swear, NO ONE wears suits anymore outside the Church. Maybe a sports-coat, buttoned-up shirt, and slacks. But even ties are becoming antiquated. I think this will go a long ways to making missionaries look more professional, and less archaic. Though those sisters BETTER NOT GO OUT IN PUBLIC WITH CURLERS IN THEIR HAIR!!! That part was God-given, everlasting revelation.
dande48 wrote:
Thank goodness we’re moving away from the “pioneer woman” look! I’d also be glad to see suits for the Elders go. I swear, NO ONE wears suits anymore outside the Church. Maybe a sports-coat, buttoned-up shirt, and slacks. But even ties are becoming antiquated. I think this will go a long ways to making missionaries look more professional, and less archaic.Though those sisters BETTER NOT GO OUT IN PUBLIC WITH CURLERS IN THEIR HAIR!!! That part was God-given, everlasting revelation.
I have had two sons (one currently) in “no suit coat” missions. They were both very pleased with the call to those areas and neither brought a suit coat. The current son’s MP is emphatic about it, even sending out a letter before the elders arrive – please do NOT bring a suit coat, you won’t wear it, it goes in storage, and it gets moldy. Still, some elders do bring them (my son works in the office currently) because “that’s what missionaries wear.” Not there, they go in storage and get moldy.
I served in a no suit coat mission. The thing is, we went to the MTC first and you definitely had to have a suit coat while there and leaders (at the time) were insistent that the suit coat be worn when traveling on planes. Even though it wasn’t a suit coat mission we had to bring them just for those days. Slightly thread jacking – I hold a Stake calling. From day 1 I have worn slacks/pants to every meeting. I purposely chose not to wear jeans or shorts. I have never had any pushback, and I conduct the meetings with Stake leadership in it and everything. Last month, every woman was in pants, a couple of them in jeans. Most of the men wore slacks and polo shirts. Only 2 were in the full suit, white shirt and tie deal. Even the Stake leader was in a checked shirt. It’s small, but there is movement on this matter.
mom3 wrote:
Slightly thread jacking – I hold a Stake calling. From day 1 I have worn slacks/pants to every meeting. I purposely chose not to wear jeans or shorts. I have never had any pushback, and I conduct the meetings with Stake leadership in it and everything. Last month, every woman was in pants, a couple of them in jeans. Most of the men wore slacks and polo shirts. Only 2 were in the full suit, white shirt and tie deal. Even the Stake leader was in a checked shirt.
You go Mom!
Heber13 wrote:
This kind of goes along with the things my missionary son said was told to them by a traveling general authority…that the church recognizes it needs to relax on some things to be more practical.It wouldn’t surprise me if “white shirts” is also going to be something that goes. For one reason, the typical white shirt and tie look is a target…for good or bad…but can be a safety issue in some places.
I agree on this one. I was out on splits with missionaries a long time ago, and it was clear — the “uniform of the priesthood” turned people off the second they saw us coming. Ughhh.Mormons! Their body language said. I think a clothing change might be welcome to at least give the missionaries a chance to open the conversation and engage with people before they close their minds on the strength of clothing recognition alone.
It certainly cuts the strength out of “wear pants to church day” — that movement started by the Ordain Women group. Heber13 wrote:
This kind of goes along with the things my missionary son said was told to them by a traveling general authority…that the church recognizes it needs to relax on some things to be more practical.It wouldn’t surprise me if “white shirts” is also going to be something that goes. For one reason, the typical white shirt and tie look is a target…for good or bad…but can be a safety issue in some places.
That would be a welcome change – even outside the mission field. I’ll never forget being chastised by a counselor in the SP for showing up to a recommend interview without a white shirt. Thing is, I’d come straight from work and was wearing a dress shirt, slacks, and tie. I just didn’t have time to go home and change into a white shirt.
IT_Veteran wrote:
That would be a welcome change – even outside the mission field. I’ll never forget being chastised by a counselor in the SP for showing up to a recommend interview without a white shirt. Thing is, I’d come straight from work and was wearing a dress shirt, slacks, and tie. I just didn’t have time to go home and change into a white shirt.
Reprimanding a fellow brother for not wearing the “right” color shirt to a meeting in which you and he are the only attendees (eliminating the possibility that the reprimand was intended to help other meeting attendees with weaker testimonies than you have)?!?!
That seems like unrighteous dominion to me and stands in opposition to everything that Jesus taught in the gospels.
My mother attended BYU in a time when it was required dresscode for women to wear skirts and dresses. BYU changed Halleluya!
Now the sister missionaries are permitted to wear dress slacks. Halleluya!
Roy wrote:
IT_Veteran wrote:
That would be a welcome change – even outside the mission field. I’ll never forget being chastised by a counselor in the SP for showing up to a recommend interview without a white shirt. Thing is, I’d come straight from work and was wearing a dress shirt, slacks, and tie. I just didn’t have time to go home and change into a white shirt.
Reprimanding a fellow brother for not wearing the “right” color shirt to a meeting in which you and he are the only attendees (eliminating the possibility that the reprimand was intended to help other meeting attendees with weaker testimonies than you have)?!?!
That seems like unrighteous dominion to me and stands in opposition to everything that Jesus taught in the gospels.
My mother attended BYU in a time when it was required dresscode for women to wear skirts and dresses. BYU changed Halleluya!
Now the sister missionaries are permitted to wear dress slacks. Halleluya!
He pulled out the “representative of Jesus Christ” card and reminded me that a white shirt and tie are required for meeting with said representatives.
I should have mentioned it – this was less than five years ago.
IT_Veteran wrote:
He pulled out the “representative of Jesus Christ” card and reminded me that a white shirt and tie are required for meeting with said representatives.
But the thing is, if you were meeting Jesus Christ, in person, face-to-face, what would you wear? A suit and tie? Probably not. Your temple clothing? … … … No. Heck, I’m not even sure I’d go with a white shirt. I’d make an effort to look nice, but I wouldn’t want to look presumptuous, or fake. I want to come “as I am”, my very best self. But wearing a white shirt… it’s just not me.
dande48 wrote:
But the thing is, if you were meeting Jesus Christ, in person, face-to-face, what would you wear? A suit and tie? Probably not. Your temple clothing? … … … No. Heck, I’m not even sure I’d go with a white shirt. I’d make an effort to look nice, but I wouldn’t want to look presumptuous, or fake. I want to come “as I am”, my very best self. But wearing a white shirt… it’s just not me.
I’m pretty sure that some people would hear about Jesus’s second coming and run home to change into their white shirt and tie.
It’s funny though, because I also started wearing non-white shirts as I was transitioning out of the church. It kept the young men from asking me for assistance with sacrament.
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