Fashion

Genesis 1:21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

As far as i have observed, fashion is a way of saying I'm ok. After all if i wear the same clothes i wore for the past three days something is wrong. If wear the same clothes i wore for the last for years a change is needed. We often refurse to wear the same thing or even the same color everyday. Yes this adhering to cultural norms. Clothes are a luxury... not a necessity to life. Clothes can be a (emotional, somewhat unconscious) form of communication. This form is God given. He was the first to make clothes from skin. His act was an act of mercy an act of grace that said "Though disobedient and fallen you have become I still love you." This act/offer of mercy we accept everyday (unless we are in a nudist colony and THAT is an entirely different post!).

Clothing was first God's act to alleviate our guilt and shame (not to remove sin). It has become away for us to communicate our hearts (the highpriest robes, sackloth of mourners, the red boots of Ceasar).

In all the arguments on what and what should not be worn by Christians (especially youth), lets not forget what clothes are there to do in the first place (cover our shame of KNOWING SIN from ourselves and others) and what it does now (communicates heart-sets and mindsets).

This is not the end all and be all for all arguments on holiness and fashion... just a note.