Please help me find a non-awful Communion suit for my 7-year-old son

[Anonymous]

I urge you to consult other boy parents in your kid’s class. While they circulated guidance to parents, the reality is most parents opted for khakis with a navy blazer or a navy or gray suit. Only a small minority put their boys in white suits (and they were Hispanic).

Poll the boy moms before you buy anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you are so mean and incredibly disrespectful. This thread should be reported for its bigotry.

OP, try Belks or Dillards or a more Southern-oriented department store. They may have what you need.

Wrong, I’m a life long Catholic, 16 years Catholic education and kids at Catholic elementary and high schools. I’m 100% against dressing 7 yrs old in white costumes and the awful connotations. My own kids did not wear bridal attire. No one’s going to hell.

Again, who asked you for your opinion?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you are so mean and incredibly disrespectful. This thread should be reported for its bigotry.

OP, try Belks or Dillards or a more Southern-oriented department store. They may have what you need.

Wrong, I’m a life long Catholic, 16 years Catholic education and kids at Catholic elementary and high schools. I’m 100% against dressing 7 yrs old in white costumes and the awful connotations. My own kids did not wear bridal attire. No one’s going to hell.

Again, who asked you for your opinion?

she said, lacking any self-awareness

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I urge you to consult other boy parents in your kid’s class. While they circulated guidance to parents, the reality is most parents opted for khakis with a navy blazer or a navy or gray suit. Only a small minority put their boys in white suits (and they were Hispanic).

Poll the boy moms before you buy anything.

Op here — the white suit directive came from the head of the religious Ed program. The other boy mom I know already asked if this was firm and she said yes and passed along some Amazon picks. Sigh!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I urge you to consult other boy parents in your kid’s class. While they circulated guidance to parents, the reality is most parents opted for khakis with a navy blazer or a navy or gray suit. Only a small minority put their boys in white suits (and they were Hispanic).

Poll the boy moms before you buy anything.

Op here — the white suit directive came from the head of the religious Ed program. The other boy mom I know already asked if this was firm and she said yes and passed along some Amazon picks. Sigh!

You don’t know anyone at your church whose son is 1-3 years older who could lend you their white suit that fits well enough?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am totally at a loss! The pants, shirt and jacket need to be white.

Can you get by with an off white linen?

https://www.chasing-fireflies.com/products/beach-pants-papyrus-cf834732

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I urge you to consult other boy parents in your kid’s class. While they circulated guidance to parents, the reality is most parents opted for khakis with a navy blazer or a navy or gray suit. Only a small minority put their boys in white suits (and they were Hispanic).

Poll the boy moms before you buy anything.

Op here — the white suit directive came from the head of the religious Ed program. The other boy mom I know already asked if this was firm and she said yes and passed along some Amazon picks. Sigh!

I’d call their bluff and if the head of religious Ed says something, I would have a conversation that goes like this “Father, Sister Mary Patricia has said that Larlo may not receive the Sacrament of Holy Communion because it is not in our budget to buy him a one-time-use white suit”. There is zero religious obligation to wear any particular item of clothing. Clean, neat, no sneakers if you can afford to buy a pair of other shoes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I urge you to consult other boy parents in your kid’s class. While they circulated guidance to parents, the reality is most parents opted for khakis with a navy blazer or a navy or gray suit. Only a small minority put their boys in white suits (and they were Hispanic).

Poll the boy moms before you buy anything.

Op here — the white suit directive came from the head of the religious Ed program. The other boy mom I know already asked if this was firm and she said yes and passed along some Amazon picks. Sigh!

The same guidance was circulated at our church, yet the majority of boys wore khakis and navy blazers or a navy or gray suit. The only boys who wore white suits were Hispanic.

Ask more boy moms. Trust me.

Signed,

Catholic Boy Mom of a handful of boys
BTDT

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I urge you to consult other boy parents in your kid’s class. While they circulated guidance to parents, the reality is most parents opted for khakis with a navy blazer or a navy or gray suit. Only a small minority put their boys in white suits (and they were Hispanic).

Poll the boy moms before you buy anything.

Op here — the white suit directive came from the head of the religious Ed program. The other boy mom I know already asked if this was firm and she said yes and passed along some Amazon picks. Sigh!

Ugh, that’s terrible. Boys at our church wear either blazers with khakis or grey/navy/black suits. I can’t imagine white suits. That’s just rough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I urge you to consult other boy parents in your kid’s class. While they circulated guidance to parents, the reality is most parents opted for khakis with a navy blazer or a navy or gray suit. Only a small minority put their boys in white suits (and they were Hispanic).

Poll the boy moms before you buy anything.

Op here — the white suit directive came from the head of the religious Ed program. The other boy mom I know already asked if this was firm and she said yes and passed along some Amazon picks. Sigh!

The same guidance was circulated at our church, yet the majority of boys wore khakis and navy blazers or a navy or gray suit. The only boys who wore white suits were Hispanic.

Ask more boy moms. Trust me.

Signed,

Catholic Boy Mom of a handful of boys
BTDT

Listen to this mom. Don’t make your poor son look like a fool.
And if you are questioned day off ignore them or tell the truth - white suit is dumb.

[Anonymous]

Hilarious that it never occurred to anyone here that OP and her family could be Hispanic and/or attending a Hispanic church. That is so DCUM, where "some of my very best friends are minorities."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yikes! What religion? Ours wear navy blazers and khakis.

Obviously Catholic. Who else has communion?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hilarious that it never occurred to anyone here that OP and her family could be Hispanic and/or attending a Hispanic church. That is so DCUM, where "some of my very best friends are minorities."

I said it was cultural for some yesterday. You aren't the first to point this out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hilarious that it never occurred to anyone here that OP and her family could be Hispanic and/or attending a Hispanic church. That is so DCUM, where "some of my very best friends are minorities."

A Hispanic Catholic mom wouldn’t balk at buying a white suit for communion. It’s their norm.

Second generation families didn’t opt for white suits.

I’m merely suggesting the op crowdsource this with more than one parent at school. Having done this a handful of times at diverse churches in MoCo, I can report most boys did not wear white despite the guidance from the religious director.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I urge you to consult other boy parents in your kid’s class. While they circulated guidance to parents, the reality is most parents opted for khakis with a navy blazer or a navy or gray suit. Only a small minority put their boys in white suits (and they were Hispanic).

Poll the boy moms before you buy anything.

Op here — the white suit directive came from the head of the religious Ed program. The other boy mom I know already asked if this was firm and she said yes and passed along some Amazon picks. Sigh!

I’d call their bluff and if the head of religious Ed says something, I would have a conversation that goes like this “Father, Sister Mary Patricia has said that Larlo may not receive the Sacrament of Holy Communion because it is not in our budget to buy him a one-time-use white suit”. There is zero religious obligation to wear any particular item of clothing. Clean, neat, no sneakers if you can afford to buy a pair of other shoes.

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