Modest Swimwear?

Modest Swimwear Girl and Mylon LeFevre: Seperated at birth? </font>[/QUOTE]So a woman who chooses to cover her body looks like this shameful man with women's hair? Thank you Lord I have no idea who this man is and I never want to know. </font>[/QUOTE]Don't worry the man has cut his hair since the photo!

 

There was a time when that dress would have been too liberal.

The majority of pornography comes from the Untied Kingdom and the United States. I have always found that interesting because other countries have different standards of what is appropriate.

When I was in Finland people could not wear on the street what they wear at the beach.

 

The salesman that sold these outfits to Eckerds evidently went to the main office of "Holiday Inn Express" and sold the outfits to the housekeeping department.

 

I don't understand why there is such mockery of a very proper goal - modest dress?!?!

 

I see no good reason to expose more during public swimming than during any other time, unless you believe in relative or situational ethics.

If a garment is too revealing for the street, it's too revealing for the public pool or beach.

It's not unlike a Christiasn who loves his neighbor, except on the highway. The Lord doesn't make those kinds of exceptions.

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BTW, It's true, Mylon does sort of look like a girl with that long hair and pink shirt.

 

Timothy, I'm not a swimmer but know that heavy clothes can slow a person down or even cause a drowning.

Also, I've seen some 'modest swimwear' on the web that was flowing and covering but would actually look more alluring on a smaller woman like myself when it was wet. I would think my one piece swim suit, covered with a pair of long shorts in the same color (those shorts made out of the swimwear type parachute feeling material) is not only safer but less clingy that some I've seen.

The Eckerd's unifrom swimwear is silly. If the woman is actually diving and swimming, a man could easily see up her clothing and view MORE than what I would wear to the beach (other than her upper arms!)

Diane

 

I haven't seen anyone mocking the idea of modest dressing. I'm pretty sure we're all agreed that dressing modestly is a commendable thing. What I (and others, evidently) find so funny is the ridiculous lengths people will go to to draw attention to the fact that they want to dress modestly.

Like I said earlier, there are plenty of ways a young woman can dress modestly for the beach without making a spectacle of herself.

 

I agree, Diane. If a person really wants to swim, then she needs the proper swim wear and then when she is on the beach or out of the pool, she can wear a cover up. There are some very pretty ones that are long an flowing and very modest.

Now, I believe the proper swim wear is a modest one piece suit and not a dress that would cling, etc.

 

I would add that if it's not possible to swim both safely and modestly in public that modest dress is a biblical requirement but public recreational swimming is not.

 

You know it is biblical to cover yourself so you do not draw attention to your body and also to not wear clothing of a man. I'll give scripture to however is interested. I do think that you shouldn't dress like your from Little House on the Prarie to be modest. Christians then didn't wear clothes from 100 years before so why are we? However I do believe in dresses only and I even have a clothing business (if your interested please email me!). There are styles that don't make someone stick out like a sore thumb. As for the swim suit I plan to ask my husband about it. He is very much into swimming, but he has fully surrendered to God instead of living like Lot. So some of the things he was against he found (from studing God's word) that they were things he should be for and vise versa. So it will be interesting to see what he says.

 

Why spend money on the Eckerds outfit (or the Holiday Inn Housekeeping uniform)?
If this is the standard for modesty in the water ( where very little is seen) why not just dive in with your clothes on?
Many people that don't get in the water but enjoy being outside but why wear the blue uniform in hot temperature.
By the way if you only knew how my Grandfather went swimming ...

 

Anyone notice that swimsuit shows more skin then what dresses only ladies claim is proper night ware for going to bed(covered neck to feet)?
Go to the beach and show more skin then going to bed with a husband????

 

Not all dresses only women feel that way about what they ware to bed.

I noticed your message about legalism. Legalism is when people say you need to do works to get saved or stay saved. I do works because I am saved. Is this what you are refering to?

 

Bwaaa!!!!! haaa!!!!! haa!!!!!!

Speaking as a man, the best rule when it comes to swimwear: Men, keep your eyes in your head. Any man who goes to the beach, and proceeds to blame his wandering eye on the attire of the women, well, that guy deserves to be slapped.

Sheesh!!! Am I the only man left alive who can control my thoughts? My mother once told a coworker of hers that I could see a nude woman walk down the street and not give her a passing glance. Maybe that's not quite accurate, but if I did see a nude woman walk down the street, I wouldn't act like I've never seen a nude women before.... uh... which, in case my mother asks, I haven't.

 

Johnv

 

Sone of us still do that. Where I live, we have a secluded harbor that's perfect for that.

I always keep a pair of trunks hung over my bowline just in case.

There's no danger of being caught but the sunburn's a real drag.

 

I agree.

If I lust after a woman, no matter how she's dressed, I don't blame the woman.

When Jesus said that you should pluck out your eye and cut off your hand if they cause you to sin, he was saying, basically, that you can blame the circumstances all you want for your sin but the blame still lies with you.

Remember, when Adam said, "It wasn't my fault, the woman tempted me", God wasn't buying it.

I never understood why people assume that all men automatically lust after everything in a skirt. I don't do that. My friends don't do that.

Why is it that the more these people say they are against lust, the quicker they are to see it everywhere and assume that that's what's on everybody's mind.

To me, it's a case of, "Methinks he doth protest too much".

 

Well, I am old enough to remember when men and women did not bathe at the same beach. And I can tell you that the men's swimsuits in those days, though covering a lot of territory, from neck to almost knees, were quite revealing.

It has already been said, keep your mind and heart on Jesus and nude bathing would not be a problem.

Cheers,

Jim

 

Big difference between working to serve God and doing works to earn blessings and grace. As has been advocated here in recent past.