Showing a Little Self-Respect
YES!!
The de-"pornification" of America has begun. Young women are realizing they don't have to dress like ... well, prostitutes. I've been very vocal in my dislike and disgust toward current style. ("Do these hip-huggers make me look fat?" "Well, what did you expect them to do?") It's maddening that my medium-sized wife had to buy an XXL shirt to get one that fits. Modesty has been scorned in the marketplace, but according to today's BreakPoint, it might just be gearing up for a comeback.
Mark Early cites a new clothing company named "Pure Fashion" and a Wendy Shalit's book, Girls Gone Mild as evidence that women have had it with provocative fashion and lifestyle.
No kidding? Modesty = respect?
I checked out Pure Fashion's Web site (http://www.purefashion.com/home). I personally can't say much for some of the colors and patterns, but there's clearly a different motivation. My wife and I have been fashion prisoners since the advent of grunge, so it may be some time before the tide turns sufficiently for us. But I'm hopeful. If this catches on, we might even see the return of some of my favorite styles from the '80s: plaid skirts, lace collars, wool sweaters, polo shirts, knit ties, pin stripes, argyles, oxford collars, penny loafers, ...
BRING IT ON!
The de-"pornification" of America has begun. Young women are realizing they don't have to dress like ... well, prostitutes. I've been very vocal in my dislike and disgust toward current style. ("Do these hip-huggers make me look fat?" "Well, what did you expect them to do?") It's maddening that my medium-sized wife had to buy an XXL shirt to get one that fits. Modesty has been scorned in the marketplace, but according to today's BreakPoint, it might just be gearing up for a comeback.
Mark Early cites a new clothing company named "Pure Fashion" and a Wendy Shalit's book, Girls Gone Mild as evidence that women have had it with provocative fashion and lifestyle.
Older feminists such as Katha Pollitt have mocked Shalit and see the modesty movement as being naïve and even repressive. But younger women say they find modest clothing not repressive, but liberating. They are realizing that modest clothing forces people to focus, not on their bodies, but on their brains and personalities.
No kidding? Modesty = respect?
These young women, whether they realize it or not, are groping their way back to a spiritual truth. As Pure Fashion notes on its website, modesty exists as an intuition of the spiritual dignity proper to humans. Teaching modesty to children awakens them to respect for the human person. Modest attire encourages purity of heart, not only for the young women who embrace it, but also for the men with whom they hang out.
I checked out Pure Fashion's Web site (http://www.purefashion.com/home). I personally can't say much for some of the colors and patterns, but there's clearly a different motivation. My wife and I have been fashion prisoners since the advent of grunge, so it may be some time before the tide turns sufficiently for us. But I'm hopeful. If this catches on, we might even see the return of some of my favorite styles from the '80s: plaid skirts, lace collars, wool sweaters, polo shirts, knit ties, pin stripes, argyles, oxford collars, penny loafers, ...
BRING IT ON!
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