What is interesting is that among many of the PD type churches here in SoCal, the Hawaiian shirt has become 'ecclesiastical garb'! If you go to a mega-church in the OC you can usually pick out the preacher by his Hawaiian shirt. In fact, when I first started preaching in SoCal, I made people mad because I wore a tie! That was not appropriate in their opinion.

I think this is an impossible topic to make dogma because cultures are so different. What if the culture of a community was to wear robes everywhere. Would a 'Genevan gown' still set anyone apart?

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