Sunday Dress

So I had an experience today that brought back a few memories about dressing up. To start off I want to say that I have a very good mother who always taught me what was and was not appropriate for church, and for the most part it's stuck. I remember one day in college when my roommates were helping me decide what to wear on an important date, and they decided I should wear a shirt and skirt that belonged to Chelsey. I protested slightly saying that I didn't have a slip that would work with the length of the skirt. Chelsey laughed, and said, "it's not see through and it lays fine, why do you need a slip, I never wear one with it?" I started to say that my mother always taught me to wear a slip, but caught myself knowing that Chelsey would think that was a silly excuse, when lo and behold my other roommate Brittney yelled out from her room and said "Because her mommy said so!" She then produced a slip that would work and informed me she always wore one too. . . "Because her mommy said so".
Well my mommy always said to wear nylons too, but I have to admit that one didn't stick at all. (I think any shot it had was eliminated when I served a mission in a tropical country and wore skirts and dresses everyday for a year and a half without nylons). Well, to get back to my story of today, I came home from church and changed into some jeans, then realized I needed something from the church a couple hours later and thus had to drive back to get it. Well, I didn't want to change all my clothes back, but wasn't about to go back in jeans, so even though I knew there were still a few wards at the church, I decided to risk it and just put on a skirt with my t-shirt and flip flops thinking that I'd run in and out before I saw anyone I knew and that way I wouldn't feel silly for walking around the church on a sunday so casually dressed. But alas, as always happens when you're trying to avoid detection, I managed to run into scores of people that I knew and came home with the resolve to take the extra minute next time to change back into acceptable sunday attire. Lesson learned, but no Mom, I probably still won't wear nylons anytime soon. . .