Soap Box

It seems lately that I have been hearing the same, tired, old excuses for women not wearing dresses.

Now, please understand, if you don't feel convicted about wearing dresses and you don't want to wear dresses and you are honest about that~ more power to you!

What I am talking about is women who maybe kind of want to wear dresses or think maybe they should wear dresses or even don't give a rip either way but feel the need to tell women who do wear dresses what they can or cannot do while wearing a dress.

So don't get all freaked out & think that I am saying that every women ought to wear only dresses & skirts. Or that I am more spiritual than you (or anybody) because I wear dresses all the time.

I don't. As I write this I am wearing very dirty jeans because I just finished riding my horse &  it is cold & windy so I chose to wear jeans. But I could just as easily have ridden in a skirt & THAT is what this blog is about.

We are a 'dresses mostly' family. We were dresses most of the time. My daughter & I tend to wear pants when we ride or fence or fix roofs. Things that are a little harder to do modestly in a skirt.

Notice I did not say 'impossible'.

For 2 years we were a dresses only family. As we live on a farm & my husband travled all of the time I have done just about everything you might ever need to do on a farm~ in a dress.

This includes feeding, milking, gardening, mowing the lawn, riding, fencing and chopping fire wood. In the ice & snow & negative temperatures.

But this isn't about me (hard to believe isn't it? :) )

I often hear women talking about how they would wear dresses but they are 'too active'. There are 'too many things' they can't do in a dress. And they just can't be 'modest' in dress.

Hmmmm, maybe they are wearing the wrong kinds of dresses...

'Dresses just aren't practical.' Again, hmmmm...

I understand that every woman is not going to wear dresses.

But I also understand that all of those 'reasons' are nothing but excuses. And NONE of them hold any water.

This country was settled by women in dresses. They farmed, they cooked, they cleaned, they raised children, chopped fire wood & walked from one side of this great land to the other ALL in dresses.

And they did it modestly & with style & I highly doubt that a single one of them tried to get out of her duties because she 'couldn't do that wearing a dress'.

So like I said, if you don't WANT to wear dresses, that is your choice. But that is what it is  a choice.

It isn't because you can't do X while you are wearing one.

So for all of the women who are out there saying "you can't weed in skirt" or "you can't mow the lawn, garden, clean, cook, whatever in a skirt GET OVER IT.

It is a total slap in the face to our ancestors & all of the amazing women who paved the road for us to say we can't do our pitiful chores in dresses.

So to sum up: Maybe you can't. But it is YOUR problem not the dress :)

I will now step off of my soap box & return you to your regularly scheduled programming ;)

Blessings.