But what is in fashion at any particular time generally reflects a particular culture s beliefs and desires. We may always ask whether those beliefs and desires, and the fashions that develop as a result, are worthy. For example, corsets, which caused the near-asphyxiation of many women, should be judged as unworthy. Women were not made to have the waists of wasps, and the attempt to make them so was destructive. Similarly, fashions may betray a culture s belief that the overt expression of sexual desire be released from the confines of the marital bedroom and let loose in public.
Miniskirts are the result of the sexual revolution.
Whether any particular woman means to express her solidarity with that revolution or not, her abbreviated clothing speaks for itself. We are all dirty stained with sin, covered with the soot of our continual struggle to climb the purgative hills of this life, soiled by backsliding, and smeared with repentant tears. Such is our condition in this life if we are at all honest about the state of our souls. We are all here to be cleaned, to be washed in the blood of the Lamb in a strange and frightening ritual that, if the veil God mercifully drapes over it were lifted, would drive us all to our knees in dread. The Church must be a sanctuary of holy sanity, an island of retreat amid the swell and bluster of sensual degradation and intellectual dwarfism.