[MineralMan]

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.

[gidget7]

That's easy, offer it in stores! I have long held the view that fashion, even blue jeans, is not flattering to women now. The jeans are cut for men and boys, do not flatter a woman or girl. Dresses and tops resemble lingerie not blouses or shirts. I haven't bought new clothes in years because fashion is so ugly.

Junior fashion for girls and smaller framed women is worst of all. All you see now is hippy clothing. While some of the skirts are attractive, the jagged hemlines are not.

If the fashion industry starts making them, they will sell them. Whether or not a girl will admit it, all girls like to look pretty. Fashion industry likes to dictate what that means.

[proxy_user]

You have put your finger on the problem. If someone wants to buy something, our capitalist society will supply it.

[JenB]

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.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

My wife has no problem finding modest clothing at ordinary retailers like J. Jill, Coldwater Creek, Ann Taylor, Talbot's, and Macy's. You just have to look for it.

If many women really wanted modest clothing, the stores would sell it only. They are there to make money, and if they weren't making money from immodesty, they wouldn't carry the clothes, because they would go bankrupt. Unfortunately, far too many women are all too eager for tight pants, two-piece bathing suits, low cut one-piece bathing suits, shirts exposing cleavage and bellies, low rider pants, and mini-skirts. Just like the trend of some women using "Victoria's Secret" shopping bags as handbags to take things to work.

40 years ago, the vast majority of people would have treated women such as this as the trollops, sluts, and wannabe street-walkers they clearly yearn to be recognized as, and the shame would have forced a change. People are far to accepting of immodesty in others, just like they are far too accepting of divorce and remarriage, shacking up, adultery, etc.

Does anyone remember the social principals of old where decent people refused to socialize with the immodest and immoral? Where remarriage meant and end to all prior social contacts in the neighborhood? You only lower yourself to their level by admitting they are presenting themselves as someone worthy of your company. If a store only sells immodest clothing, by all means, register a complaint with management, and inform them of where you will be shopping instead, and how much you will spend, and who else you will tell to avoid it. Then shake the dust from your feet and move on.