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/
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.
I agree. Being full figured, it's very hard to find anything to wear now. I just keep wearing my old clothes and taking extra care with them. I sometimes go to Goodwill to find stuff.
As usual, the fashion industry only caters to the "perfect size woman" myth.
Even the clothes at Lane Bryant aren't all that attractive looking anymore :-(
It only took fourteen posts. I'm shocked.
The anti-Catholic brigade is slipping in their response times.
Drop into any Land's End store. Lots of modest clothing in there. Really.
Or Eddie Bauer. Same sort of thing.
You're not going to find it at The Gap or Wet Seal or any of those stores, I guarantee.
When you start seeing modest clothing in Seventeen and the other fashion magazines aimed at young girls, then you'll have no trouble getting girls into that clothing.
Around here, in Minnesota, there's a chain called Mills Fleet Farm. It's basically a big, old-fashioned feed store writ large.
They have clothing for all ages, and it's all modest. Could be there's something like that, too, in your area. Convincing your daughters to buy their clothing there, however, is your responsibility. I wouldn't even try.
I've never had trouble finding what I consider modest dress - knee-length skirts, shirts that cover my belly, jeans that don't show my underwear. Maybe it's a little more work but it's not that big a deal. I honestly don't know why people complain. Sure, there are plenty of immodest clothes out there, lots of stuff I wouldn't wear, but it's not hard to find nice stuff.
Aha! I see the Catholic-bashing has begun. Why don't you give it a rest?
"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.
Aha! I see the Catholic-bashing has begun. Why don't you give it a rest?
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Truth hurts.
I suspect that something like 0.009% of women can wear hip-huggers without looking like Six Pounds of $#!+ Stuffed in a Five Pound Sack.
Seriously, ladies: You have a waist. It's located several inches above your crotch. When you put the waistband of your pants below your actual waist, you look like you have two waists, and a blob of glop hanging out between them. It makes you look ridiculous and disgusting.
Rant Off.
Not really. If you'll look up a little in the thread, you'll see that the moderator didn't like your little nasty droppings, either.
This thread is not about sex abuse. This thread is about a call by a Catholic leader for more modest clothing. Your comment was out of line, and is now gone. Good riddance to it.
Yeah. All that stuff is out there. Land's End, for example, offers jeans in at least 4 heights of rise, to suit almost any figure. They fit, too, according to my wife, who shops there almost exclusively.
For teens, though, it's a tougher deal. They're dealing with peer pressure and want to shop in the stylish stores frequented by their friends. That makes it a little more difficult.
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.
Pricey, but worth it.
thew = the.
Where did the so-called "fashion" come from that dictates tops that look like they are outgrown? I even see these on adults now -- too tight and too short with the under layer hanging out. I see tops in stores that look like doll clothes. It really looks stupid.
Personally, I have the opposite problem. Lands end and Eddie Bauer, as well as a lot of the classic places carry only misses and women's sizes. Being short I need junior sizes, and that makes it even more difficult.
I forgot LL Bean. Also a very good store. All of these offer high-quality clothing. It's a little pricey, but lasts well if cared for properly.
But, then, I'm an old guy of 60, so I'm out of touch, I guess. I do hope, though, that not ALL the teenaged girls start wearing modest clothing. They're so decorative, you know. [grin]
I'm just a simple country girl - what the HELL are you talking about? It's just a joke, right?
But I guess for some people, "Catholic" is the same as "pedophile," the same way that, for some people, "Jew" is the same as "greedy liar".
The technical term for such people is "bigot".
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