Posted on 03/29/2006 12:39:50 PM PST by NYer
LINCOLN, March 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Family Life Office of the Catholic diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, has endorsed a lay-led effort to make more feminine and modest clothing available to women by retailers.
Project Mother’s Day 2006: a Call to Catholic Action, is an undertaking of the lay apostolate, The Leaven that promotes the family and feminine values. The event, says its organizers, is “in honour of the spiritual maternity inherent to the unique, feminine nature and vocation of women.”
Project Mothers’ Day will feature the popular writer and broadcaster, Colleen Hammond, a radio & television talk show host, comedienne, and mother and author of the book Dressing With Dignity. Hammond is a frequent speaker on the preservation of the family and feminine values. A review of her book says, “Gone are the days when women dressed with beauty and charm that accentuated their femininity.”
The review says, “Much of what passes for women’s fashions today appeals to the baser senses of men and women, making it increasingly difficult to maintain the respect that women deserve.”
Juliana Davis, co-founder of The Leaven and organizer of the Lincoln event, says that “secular sexuality vis a vis immodest fashions, contraception, and abortion make a mockery of women.”
“Though I always knew that immodest fashions were insulting, it wasn’t until I read Colleen’s book that I realized immodest fashions are tied to a multi-faceted affront to our sacred dignity," Davis says.
Project Mother’s Day organizers say they hope the event will help empower women to petition area merchants to provide tasteful, modest fashions in keeping with women’s sacred dignity.
“I really hope other grassroots groups will follow suit to begin similar Mother’s Day initiatives,” says Davis
Hammond, who is becoming a one-woman crusader for feminine values, is collecting signatures for a petition to clothing manufacturers to make more tasteful and feminine clothes available through retail outlets. Hammond operates two blogs and a personal website to support her efforts.
Sign the petition:
http://www.colleenhammond.com/petition.html
Visit Colleen Hammond’s Blogs:
Colleen Hammond
http://colleenhammond.blogspot.com/
Dressing With Dignity
http://dressingwithdignity.blogspot.com/
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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.
Nice try...if this was true, then there would not be a need for a call for more modest clothing....
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.
There ya go
You have put your finger on the problem. If someone wants to buy something, our capitalist society will supply it.
They look like they're ready to burst forth from chrysalides.
I'm all for modest and conservative clothing. When you pick up the weenkend section of your newspapers, the fashions are horribly sloppy, show way too much skin, and makes both adult women and girls look like they're residing in a third world country. Most of the fashions border on making females look like prostitutes. We need more tailored, even English classic styles back. Sooner the better.
That Nebraska diocese is a big picture group. What they are reacting to is the TV culture on cable, Satellite, the movies and network TV. They're just trying to show a little leadership and aren't afraid say so.
To be fair, modesty in dress has almost nothing at all to do with pedophiles and gays in their own ranks. For example, they can support pedophiles and gays if they decide to dress modestly.
It doesn't make them hypocrites. It may make them something else, though. :-)
I guess it depends on what type of man a woman wants to "allure".
Thank you for once again demonstrating the Taliban Corrolary to Godwin's Law.
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