You Are What You Wear?

Dennis Prager has a new column today which asks the question "Why do we now think clothes have no function beyond comfort? My father was a big believer that "The clothes make the man" and always made sure that he wore a suit and tie even to the doctor's office. He was taught in Law School - and his own experiences backed the teaching up - that people take you more seriously when you look professional and serious. I have had my doubts at times - I am a more casual person than my father anyway - but Mr. Prager makes some interesting points.

What we wear communicates what we think of ourselves, but even more so, what we think of the world around us.



When guests dress up for a wedding, they do so in order to honor the bride and groom and to proclaim how much they honor the marriage ceremony.



When students and teachers dress up for school every day, they are honoring education. It demonstrates the foolishness of the people who run American education that they, of all people, so often lead the attack on school uniforms. Incredibly, they don't understand how much respect education loses when students wear to school what they wear to the mall.

Am I the only one who has been wondering when people walk into church wearing a ripped t-shirt and shorts? I do not mean when a guy walks in off the streets - I know many folks for whom a t-shirt is their nicest clothes - but when you see a CEO of a major company walk into church in clothes they would not use to lounge around the pool in. Clothes do communicate your attitude, and it worries me to see so many who seem to be "chillin' with God" rather than "worshipping the King of Kings."