Get tough policy...dress code

[Guest guest]

Where I live, besides half naked torso, and constantly uncovered head,

matajis have also adopted canstant facial make-up and the whole science of

hair styling, and besides short hair, of course also the hair style of

parting on the side.

 

Prabhupada: To part. This parting, this parting is also... There is some

meaning. When the parting is here, in the middle, then that girl has her

husband and she is coming from respectable family. And if the, I mean to

say, partition is here, then she is a prostitute. You see? A prostitute

cannot... There was king's ruling that a prostitute cannot (laughs) part

here.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Bhagavad-gita 2.7-11 -- New York, March 2, 1966

 

It looks odd, if you know this.

 

your servant Giri-nayaka das

[Guest guest]

> > Mother Malati points are well taken. We are always happy to see devotees

> > in the temple.

 

Agreed

 

> > We are not saying

> > that they can't be "lively", but just that they should be modest in their

> > dress as per Srila Prabhupada's indications.

 

Here's one such indication:

 

"During the hot New York summer of 1967, I was painting for the temple and

BTG. At that time there were no strict standards governing how the devotees

should dress, so I wore modern western summer clothes, and this drew

criticism from one Godbrother. I wanted to check with Prabhupäda to see who

was right, so when we next visited him, I asked, 'Is it all right to wear

shorts?' He answered gravely, 'The attraction is already there. Don't

aggravate it.'

 

"Prabhupäda was sitting on his bed while a few of us sat on the floor

at his feet. On the wall above him was an Indian Brijabasi print of

Draupadi praying with folded hands for Krsna to protect her from the vicious

assembly. Prabhupäda pointed to the picture and said,'By nature a woman is

ashamed to be seen undressed. She should be so covered, that even the sun

cannot see her. And who can hide themselves from the sun?' Then he praised

the women in the parsee community who were so covered that only their eyes

showed."

 

by Jadurani d.d.

 

> As for ladies dressing modestly, there are many churches that

> require this for entry. I went to the cathedral in Milano with my wife and

> daughter and I saw that any women trying to enter with short dresses or

> shorts were politely taken to the side and given a long skirt to wrap around

> them before entering.

 

That's reasonable.

 

> The simply fact is that today's fashion are pretty

> extreme, especially the one where the jeans are so low cut they leave

> nothing to the imagination. Even karmi parents are complaining about it. I

> have seen even here in India now it is becoming a problem because

> practically no young women wear saris anymore. They are all mad after

> western fashions and the media is full of propaganda for the "sexual

> liberation" of women.

 

One devotee wife in the ISKCON Bangalore congregation told me that her uptown

"friends" rebuke her if she comes to a party even in Punjabi dress, what to

speak if she wears a sari. She said that they tell her, "Why are dressed like

that? You look like a servant girl!"

 

The clincher is that they consider it posh to wear a T-shirt and jeans.

 

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