Comments on: Why I Dress Simply

By: Holly Dickson-Ramos

Holly Dickson-Ramos — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 20:06:57 +0000

I love your paragraph about strength – Biblical strength. Thank you for the reminder. I also like this sentence: Dressing simply is a way of saying and of feeling deep within myself that I am worth more than my clothes or my sex appeal. You’ve stated this so simply and it is such a good reminder of how damaging secular messaging about appearance can be. In my world, no one says what you’ve just said. Pressure to look good is constant – it comes at us – all of us, regardless of age or gender – from so many sources. Back in Bible college some of us wrote messages to ourselves across our dorm room mirrors and I think your sentence would be so suitable for this: I am worth more than my clothes or my sex appeal!

By: marlandphotos

marlandphotos — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 12:56:04 +0000

Well said!

By: Lucinda J

Lucinda J — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:09:14 +0000

In reply to Brendan Armitage. I really like that thought. Simplicity enables us to see beauty more clearly. Thank you!

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:05:30 +0000

I enjoyed and agreed with this article very much! Thanks for broaching this subject.

By: Brendan Armitage

Brendan Armitage — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 23:26:40 +0000

I take care of two ladies in their 90s.
In looking at their pictures from 40 years ago, I think both are more beautiful in the soft joy and amusement they each have in life, than they were then.
My point is that the beauty God gives us takes many forms?

Living simply (simply) gives us the opportunity to more clearly see the various forms of beauty that God puts in our lives, much as we can better enjoy a tree’s colors in the Fall than in the Summer summer?/

It is a gift to be simple. Never let the prevailing culture convince us otherwise. Who but the simple can so clearly see Gof all around us.

By: Lucinda J

Lucinda J — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 23:14:49 +0000

In reply to annie36bPhoebe Wiley. Thanks, Phoebe. I always love hearing from you.

By: annie36bPhoebe Wiley

annie36bPhoebe Wiley — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 22:43:19 +0000

I am an outdoors woman, and I also dress simply, but my uniform is jeans and comfortable tops that go with whatever the weather is. I like to garden and run a chainsaw, and I don’t want to worry about who sees what when I bend over. Like you I never wear make up. At the age of nearly 80 years old, my face has wrinkles and the skin on my arms looks old. I don’t care. I am just very thankful to be pretty healthy and able to take care of myself and my property, including my little woods. I so enjoy your blogs, whatever the topic.

By: Regina

Regina — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 18:55:03 +0000

Thank you Lucinda. I choose to dress simply as well so I sew my own my own modest dresses and I wear no makeup. I used to wear makeup many years ago but it was a pain. Then I came under conviction about trying to “improve” what God gave me. It was as though I was telling God He didn’t know what He was doing.
Thank you again Lucinda.

By: Lucinda J

Lucinda J — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 18:35:43 +0000

In reply to Michelle. Thank you so much!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 18:25:50 +0000

Excellent Biblical explanation of why we plain people dress simply! Thank you! Lucinda, you have a real talent of taking deep subjects and expressing them so clearly and real to life. Your way of thinking resonates closely with me and you remind me very much of myself. God bless you and keep up the good work!