Ping.
There are lots of sources of modest clothing on the web and through mail order. A search for "modest clothing" brings up lots of results.
Now...how to get teenagers into such clothing...there's the rub.
How refreshing -- a Catholic organization speaks out for modesty in dress!
Very nice post, thank you.
Before any cathlolic bashing begins, just let me say that it's nice to read common sense for a change. Young women really don't have to dress like common street hookers to draw attention to themselves. Class and sophistication always was and always will be more alluring.
Coming soon to a "Gap" near you.
But, of course, the DUmmies will see this as an effort to put women in Burkhas and enslave them, perhaps taking away their ability to vote as a next step.
When our nation has reached a point where women are hiring hair stylers for their sexual area, a little modesty would be a nice change.
"Offer Modest Fashions so Women Can “Dress with Dignity”
There is a demand for clothing that covers more skin and capitalist forces will cause it to be avaiable. If the current companies won't do it then new companies will come into the market to fill the gap.
But the premise that wearing long clothing is required for dignity is not correct. A person can dignity with a variety of clothing - dignity is in the mind and the heart.
Nothing's new under thew sun. Even Dante 700 yrs ago in his 'Divina Commedia' railed against the indecent female attire of his contemporary Florence. He hoped that the prohibition of too low cut dresses would be solemnly read from all the the pulpits. So the moral decadence must have set even then.
This is silly. There are many, many stores that offer "modest" clothing for women and girls.
Land's End, for instance.
The fact that kids would rather shop at slutty stores than JCPenney is the issue. Blame parents, not stores.
It's called Talbots. It's all over the country.
When will you start sending out patrols to enforce proper dress codes and behavior?
Will they carry canes to switch the offenders?
I've actually been having a problem finding modest maternity clothes, this time round. I'm a bit on the tall side (5'9", nothing freakish), but they cut the styles so fine now, tops as short as possible, bottoms as low as possible, that that extra couple inches above average is killing me. Nothing covers.
And don't even get me started on Motherhood Maternity's "Just Because You're Pregnant, It Doesn't Mean You Can't Dress Like You're Easy" advertising campaign they've been running this past season.
Currently, I believe there is a huge confusion between dressing handsomely, in ways that flatter people, and dressing "sexy."
Our current fashion sense, which is driven between a combination of youth culture and designers noting that, thinks that sexy-slutty is good because it gets attention. They don't understand handsome at all. There are also have very scrambled moral codes (tolerance is good, sexual activity is good, standing up for the old values is bad) in the people that are driving this, both in the youth culture and designer's circles.
Last fall, I started to put a site together that would have resources, and other information, and was going to update it regularly, but couldn't follow through. I need to get back and prune the site, but I do have some info that might be useful to someone working through the issue:
about modesty (from a wide spectrum of viewpoints)
http://www.escproductions.bizland.com/mod/modestysclosetlamode.html
Sources for modest clothing:
(some of this is very modest, ala plain dress in the mennonite tradition, some less so)
http://www.escproductions.bizland.com/mod/modestysclosetlamode2.html
Adaptive strategies: things to do and things you can buy to make up for the low cut and such:
http://www.escproductions.bizland.com/mod/modestysclosetlamode3.html
The other day, I went to Walmart to look for a low end pullover top, and everything was cut too low. So I went and bought a shirt out of the men's department.
That's a sad thing, when even all the tees are too low.