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September 2006
Modesty is fashionable
— and fashionably Catholic
Back-to-school look combines layers, good taste
Amy Guckeen
Special to Parenting
A young model shows off her fashionable, yet leisurely attire during a Pure Style Fashion Show in Pewaukee in 2005. (Catholic Herald file photo by Sam Lucero)
Back to school clothes shopping – the annual ritual in which teen and pre-teen children make lawyerly defenses of their sartorial selections so that their parents will turn those choices into purchases.

While some may say beauty lies within, adolescents can find enough of an argument for the contrary in today’s media messages and in the malls. Clothing ads laden with sexual innuendo and barely dressed 20-somethings are the norm, and according to Colleen Hammond, author of “Dressing with Dignity,” it’s starting to show — a little too much.

“We don’t even dress up to visit the White House, let alone Mass,” Hammond said, referencing the Northwestern University women’s lacrosse players who wore flip-flops to the White House during a July 2005 visit with President Bush. “We only get a few seconds to make a first impression. How do we want to be perceived? As a dignified lady worthy of respect? Or a street walker? The challenge is that young ladies want to be popular, but being well-known for the wrong image is not what you want hanging over your head for the rest of your life.”

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Catholic Herald Parenting is a supplement of the Catholic Herald published eight times annually, September to May. It is intended to help parents pass on the Catholic faith to their children.
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