According to the British newspaper, a recently ordained female pastor was not too happy with having to stand in front of her congregation to preach in traditional garb that ministers of the cloth have worn for hundreds of years.
However, her friend, Camelle Daley, a fashion designer and founder of the House of Ilona, came...
up with a suitable idea that would help her and other female pastors remain fashion conscious while they preached — a pastor's dress.
The delighted new pastor, happy that she could now stand at the altar without feeling that she would be rejected because of the way she looked, accepted the new dress from Daley and went about sharing the Word of God.
Seeing that there may be some money to be made from this, Daley decided to come up with a collection for fashion conscious female pastors to enhance the way they presented themselves to their members.
Female pastors can now feel encouraged to stand up in front of their congregations, but are they not concerned that the Bible tells us vanity is the road to destruction in several passages of Scripture?
Some of Daley's customers feel uplifted by her new fashion statement for female spiritual leaders and took to her website to write a review. One customer named Juliana wrote, "This is by far the most attractive clerical outfit I own! I feel professional AND feminine in my knee length clergy dress. All of my contacts with House of Ilona have been nothing but positive."
Melissa, another customer, wrote that the new outfit for female pastors looks great. She adds that the clergy dress is comfortable, fashionable and is also made of a fabric that is machine washable. However, none of the comments mentioned that the new outfits help the women faithfully lead their congregation to Christ. Maybe that's not considered to be an important issue today.
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