Dear Seeking of Wisdom:

Don't forget that it was the Pope who told them they couldn't eat fish in the first place. So, in essence, the Pope, while, of course, going to Hell for not being a Baptist, has the basic idea of "fashion" down -- make up arbitrary rules and then change them once everyone has bought all they are going to. One does have to wonder if pontiffs sometimes aren't just having a jolly time testing the boundaries of credulity with some of the bull, I mean bulls, they have issued over the years. Nevertheless, for someone who so unflinching cross-dresses, the Pope should be given his due: not everyone can pull of hats with that kind of height!

Let me explain something to you that you appear to be missing: fashion is not about how you will look ten years from now. It is how you look this very moment. In ten years, you will be much to old for anyone to possibly notice what you are wearing, much less remember what you wore a decade earlier. If, perchance, you are lucky enough to have a wondrous plastic surgeon or a close relationship with the deity who made you (as is the case with Mrs. Bowers) then you must simply reinvent yourself and when presented with evidence of outfits that have become passe, do what any Christian always does when embarrassed by the truth: deny three times.

So Close to Jesus,
Our Crucifixes Share a Cross-Beam,