Duncan Posted March 28, 2013 Author Posted March 28, 2013 Imagine going into someone's office for an upper level business conference.Do you expect the guy behind the big desk to be wearing a white shirt with short sleeves and a clip-on tie?Maybe a tennis outfit, yes, maybe a Hawaiian shirt- but if it's a white shirt and tie, and this is serious stuff, it's gonna be long sleeves.White shirts and a tie and short sleeves are for missionaries who look totally formal riding a bike, but totally casual if you take the same outfit into a serious environment.Reminds me of the phrase "wet behind the ears" for some reason...... oh, I see how it is! it's all out now! Well, Baptizing the dead is serious business so neener neener! ha!
mfbukowski Posted March 28, 2013 Posted March 28, 2013 oh, I see how it is! it's all out now! Well, Baptizing the dead is serious business so neener neener! ha! See how many GA's show up for conference in short-sleeved shirts and no coats. And they are dressing to give speeches for men- not as one appearing before God.One should dress properly when one is performing the ordinances of salvation and exaltation. 1
bjw Posted March 28, 2013 Posted March 28, 2013 I think some are not aware of this rule that work at the temple. I was at the temple to do a session a few months back and I was already in the chapel waiting to be taken into the Endowment, when I got up to use the restroom and a temple worker stopped me in the hallway and asked me to go change my shirt. When I told him I didn't have a long-sleeve he made me go rent one. I was almost late for my session.At first I was kinda aggrivated, but I got to thinking about it, I think maybe its about modesty in dress. Purity in thought is important, especially during the Endowment, and some are easily distracted by the form of the human body. Everything in the temple is by revelation, and I think there's a reason for everything.
Duncan Posted March 29, 2013 Author Posted March 29, 2013 I think some are not aware of this rule that work at the temple. I was at the temple to do a session a few months back and I was already in the chapel waiting to be taken into the Endowment, when I got up to use the restroom and a temple worker stopped me in the hallway and asked me to go change my shirt. When I told him I didn't have a long-sleeve he made me go rent one. I was almost late for my session.At first I was kinda aggrivated, but I got to thinking about it, I think maybe its about modesty in dress. Purity in thought is important, especially during the Endowment, and some are easily distracted by the form of the human body. Everything in the temple is by revelation, and I think there's a reason for everything.where you we draw the line? if someone is you know...about my arms... well I guess let them be, who can blame them? but it's just arms, aren't we responsible for our own thoughts?? police those rather then what others are or are not wearing!
Hamba Tuhan Posted March 29, 2013 Posted March 29, 2013 God in His wisdom is obviously trying to teach us an important principle here: short-sleeved shirts look dorky. 4
Calm Posted March 29, 2013 Posted March 29, 2013 They do actually. Better to roll up a long sleeved shirt if you are going for the attraction value. 3
BlueDreams Posted March 29, 2013 Posted March 29, 2013 (edited) They do actually. Better to roll up a long sleeved shirt if you are going for the attraction value.amen...A long sleeved dress shirt that is rolled up has a great tendency to accentuate men's biceps and forearms. It's kinda hot. And I can say that, because I'm a woman and single and quite enjoy men's biceps and forearms (as long as they're not too hairy).Men also generally look better in a colored shirt. But that's also not gonna happen in an endowment session. Either way, best to keep my thoughts focused while in the temple. Men aren't the only ones who enjoy looking With luv,BD Edited March 29, 2013 by BlueDreams 1
BlueDreams Posted March 29, 2013 Posted March 29, 2013 (edited) where you we draw the line? if someone is you know...about my arms... well I guess let them be, who can blame them? but it's just arms, aren't we responsible for our own thoughts?? police those rather then what others are or are not wearing!So I swear, I wrote my comment before ever seeing this one and was mostly joking (I was not joking about my tastes, just the context of them). But seriously, I think it goes beyond a sense of "purity in thought"....at least on a sexual connotation. Workers are also to minimize the jewelry they wear (I can wear one set of small simple (whitish) earrings) because they distract. And not necessarily for men, cuz we hardly see them in the temple. It's about minimizing just about everything individualized in many ways and drawing the least amount of attention to the self. It's also about maintaining a certain distinction from what it is to be apart of a sacred ceremony and apart of the world. In the world, you can go with just about anything and everything. Temple not at all. There's a focus and everything about the temple is meant to maintain that focus of purity in thought. To me, men can't wear short sleeved white shirts anymore than women can and it has absolutely nothing to do with some sense of modesty (at least of the mainstream version that entails maintaining sexual purity in thought or whatever).There, that's about as serious an answer I'm going to get on this topic.With luv,BD Edited March 29, 2013 by BlueDreams 3
BlueDreams Posted March 29, 2013 Posted March 29, 2013 I like short sleeve button up shirts on guys!Maybe you just like dorky guys.....they need love too 3
Duncan Posted March 29, 2013 Author Posted March 29, 2013 Maybe you just like dorky guys.....they need love too and what is that supposed to mean?!
BlueDreams Posted March 29, 2013 Posted March 29, 2013 (edited) and what is that supposed to mean?!That you're loved of course.With luv,BD Edited March 29, 2013 by BlueDreams 2
cinepro Posted March 29, 2013 Posted March 29, 2013 38 replies and not a single second amendment joke?
Kenngo1969 Posted March 30, 2013 Posted March 30, 2013 Just to be clear, brides can appropriately have short sleeved wedding dresses, they will just have to wear a special 'd i c k y' underneath (which they usually have in the temple bridal room) to make it long sleeved while they are in the temple. This also makes sure that the collar bones are covered as well, something that isn't needed for modesty but is necessary when in the temple.Sneak that one past the censors, did ya? (Sorry; couldn't resist!) 1
Monster Posted March 30, 2013 Posted March 30, 2013 It never ceases to amaze me of the trivial things that Mormons make important.
Popular Post Hamba Tuhan Posted March 31, 2013 Popular Post Posted March 31, 2013 It never ceases to amaze me what trivial things critics of the Church will jump on as an excuse to lob one more pot-shot at its members. 5
cinepro Posted August 12, 2013 Posted August 12, 2013 Bringing back this thread from the dead to point out that I went to a baptism recently and noticed the men's jumpsuits were all short - sleaved. If ordinances weren't supposed to be done in short sleeves, I would expect this to have been rectified.
Scott Lloyd Posted August 12, 2013 Posted August 12, 2013 Something that just ocurred to me but if you are a man, such as myself, can you wear a white shirt with short sleeves in the Temple? anybody know?Not only must they be long-sleeved, but the sleeves may not be rolled up. That is, I on one occasion witnessed an ordinance worker asking two young men who had their sleeves rolled up to roll them down. I have assumed from this that it is a requirement.
Tacenda Posted August 12, 2013 Posted August 12, 2013 I'm curious here, my sister's MIL made a big fuss over her not wearing nylons upon arriving for her son's temple marriage. According to this MIL, it is a no no. Is this new? Or has this woman been told wrong? I've met her and she is not dogmatic or picky about things in the church, that I know about, that's why I was curious.
Calm Posted August 12, 2013 Posted August 12, 2013 (edited) You mean your street clothes or temple clothes? white knee highs are all I've been wearing since I started going.As far as streetclothes, no one has ever said anything to me about not wearing nylons (I haven't had a pair in the house for at least ten years.My dad forgot his socks for my son's wedding. It just looks weird and if one is borrowing the shoes (which he was) I think it's kind of rude as well as I am not sure they can sanitize them as well as one can socks. Edited August 12, 2013 by calmoriah
JAHS Posted August 12, 2013 Posted August 12, 2013 Besides for reasons of uniformity, the long sleeves will cover up all those tatoos men have on their arms.
Calm Posted August 12, 2013 Posted August 12, 2013 Besides for reasons of uniformity, the long sleeves will cover up all those tatoos men have on their arms.All women's dresses are long sleeved as well.
stemelbow Posted August 12, 2013 Posted August 12, 2013 Years ago I came home from my mission and went through a session with short sleeves. No one said a word until I got in the Celestial room. An older gentleman came over as I sat quietly and told me how disrespectful and inappropriate I was. He didn't even specify it was due to my shirt. I was about to cry. Soon after that I went back to the temple in the short sleeved shirt and was going about my business when an old lady stopped me and said I needed to get a long sleeve shirt on. I'm guessing that's what the old gentleman was talking about before. I've been long sleeved ever since.
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