“Does your mom let you wear jeans to church?”

So spoke a family friend who was babysitting me and my siblings many years ago when our parents were away for the weekend. I had come downstairs that Sunday morning wearing jeans, a sweater, and a scarf.

“Yes,” I said without hesitation. I thought her question was odd, and I was confused – partially because the jeans I was wearing were dark jeans, so I had mentally put them in the category of dress pants – but also because I couldn’t think of a reason to wear jeans to church. I wondered whether the babysitter thought I was trying to get around my parents’ rules.

While my parents had no rule against denim or pants at church, in truth, I didn’t wear jeans to church very often because my sisters and I shared many nice dresses on our childhood S

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