subject: Lds Temple Dresses And Wedding Dressesmodest Through The Years [print this page] For the past 30 years ordinary everyday clothes of men, women and children young and old had painstakingly changed from modest to almost bare. If you would take time to look at your grandparents or great grandparents' pictures when they were young you would find out that what almost everyone wears today is totally out of harmony with modesty. Remember those skirts that would not almost show your feet and blouses that don't even give a hint of that cleavage with sleeves reaching up to your wrist. Wow! That is a lot of material! Unfortunately even wedding dresses that are supposed to add sacredness and respect to matrimony had also followed this trend.
If you would flip your fingers on some popular magazines, you would see most models wearing trendy clothing that doesn't cover much of the skin. Consequently teenagers because of too much advertisement and exposure to people who wear the style follow. Sadly even little innocent children are caught up in this fashion of showing too much skin and adults regard them as cute.
Thankfully, LDS temple dresses had not changed its standards. From the time the church was organized and temples built later on, its dress standards had not followed the trend of the world. This is not to say that members of the church are not fashionable, on the contrary most of them are, but they are just committed to following what is modest. That is to say skirts 2 inches below the knee, neckline with no cleavage showing, sleeves regular cut, fabric not too revealing and not too tight on the body. Only the hands, the neck and the face are bare when you wear it but it is definitely not old fashioned. It only matches the grandeur and majesty of facing the Lord properly dressed.
The LDS wedding dresses on the other hand almost follow the same style with just little more beads, sequences or maybe embroidered flower design to distinguish it from the usual temple dress. Most of those who had gone to the temple would tell you, they look more beautiful and more handsome wearing the wedding dress. It is because you automatically change from worldly to heavenly upon entering the temple.
The LDS wedding dresses are not extravagantly made but are simply and delicately designed to match the simple wedding that is about to take place. Just like what everyone in the church is counseled when marrying. Keep everything simple. Let not your reception or your wedding dress overshadow the simple temple wedding.
To wear LDS temple dresses is a privilege given to all who are worthy to wear it. It gives you a sweet feeling of having to commune with the Lord in the temple. To wear the wedding dress is sublime because it makes you feel a step nearer to God.
