I'm more likely to be wearing a (casual ) skirt or dress for church on a Sunday than trousers because I find them more comfortable...and also it's hard to totally throw off my Brethren background where women would NEVER wear trousers to church. I wear trousers most other days for reasons of practicality, but on Tuesdays and Sundays days when I'm not likely to be expected to be very physically active, I'm likely to be in a comfy skirt or dress. And almost always with a cardi, which is my signature garment (I threw it aside this past week at work though, for the annual appearance if the Christmas Jumper!) The only think more comfy that a nice elasticated skirt, or loose dress, is a pair of elasticated joggers, which I wear around the house on days when I don't have to go out and look presentable! Basically, all other things being equal, I dress for comfort...typical (probably) autistic woman!
... it's hard to totally throw off my Brethren background where women would NEVER wear trousers to church ...
I was originally brought up as a Baptist, and I remember once getting the filthiest looks because I wore trousers to a church service. That may have had some bearing on why I left them and went to the Cathedral instead - that and the fact that the music was better!
As kids jeans were our bestest clothes. My parents really struggled to get us jeans to wear. Buying jeans meant buying new clothes, trousers, skirts, dresses etc could be home made or got second hand but NOT jeans. This was not appreciated by ladies at Church and, as we were p.k.s*, jeans were banned. Unfair!
This is an NFL (National [American] Football League) anecdote. For 12 years we lived inn a suburb of Cincinnati, OH, where the local NFL team is the Bengals. Having been raised just outside of Pittsburgh, PA, I was fortunate to come of age when the Steelers were winning a number of their Superbowl championships. Back to Cincinnati... because the Bengals and Steelers are in the same Division (a subset of four teams within the larger League), they play against one another twice each regular season, and sometimes meet for a third time during the Playoffs. On the Sundays the Bengals were in Pittsburgh or the Steelers in Cincinnati, I always made sure to wear a Steelers necktie to church, and would pull it out from behind my cassock and surplice for the recessional hymn, smiling broadly as I walked up the center aisle and out of the nave. After a few years of this local blasphemy, the men of the church decided they'd had enough, and didn't want to see my 'ugly' Steelers tie any more. So, in secret they took up a collection of old, ugly ties, and gathered 52 of them, their rationale being that they wanted me to be able to wear an ugly non-Steelers tie every week of the year. They also chipped in and purchased for me an official NFL Cincinnati Bengals tie which they insisted I wear on the Sundays following a PIT/CIN game if the Bengals won. It was great fun, and I did end up wearing that Bengals tie a few times. I've since donated a lot of those old, ugly ties, but I have also kept a good number of them, much to Mrs. The_Riv's chagrin. I really, really miss that parish.
My son pastored in Kenosha Wisconsin. Half his people were Bears fans. The other half were Packers fans. He said it was something when the two teams would play against each other. On the other hand he had his own personal dissonance. He lives in Seahawk territory now, but he walks around with a Buffalo hat.
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Which one? Cardi A, or Cardi B? Is there a C or D as well?
If it is your signature garment, do you ever get tired of it, and say, "Not the cardi 'gain"?
I wrote a long earnest reply (now deleted) explaining that I have many cardigans....then after I posted I noticed your dreadful pun! Doh! 🤣
*p.k. preacher's/parson's kid
Never heard them called that elsewhere.
My son pastored in Kenosha Wisconsin. Half his people were Bears fans. The other half were Packers fans. He said it was something when the two teams would play against each other. On the other hand he had his own personal dissonance. He lives in Seahawk territory now, but he walks around with a Buffalo hat.