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DEL.ICIO.USIs modesty in fashion?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Parents of ‘tween girls, is it hard for you to find outfits your daughters like and that you approve of?
I don’t have kids, but walking past the girls’ department I sometimes wonder who is buying midriff-baring tops for 12-year-olds.
Here’s an event that sounds interesting: The Pure Fashion Show, which emphasizes modesty.
Brenda Sharman
“Modesty is more than the way we dress; it is an outward reflection of an interior attitude,” says Brenda Sharman, former Miss Georgia USA and National Director of Pure Fashion, a faith-based group.
Pure Fashion started with a group of moms and their teenage daughters who felt clothing for young ladies had gone a little too Britney.
“Girls can wear cute clothes and still maintain their dignity,” the group says.
Here are some photos from last year’s show. Would your daughter wear these types of outfits? Do you wish she would?
This year’s fashion show starts at 2 p.m. April 20 in the Georgia Ballroom at the Georgia World Congress Center. Doors open for pre-function activities and heavy hors d’oeuvres at 12:30 p.m
Organizers expect more than 2,000 at the event, which also will feature performances by Carried Away, a Dove Award-winning Christian group from Tennessee; Lindee Link, 13, of Peachtree City, and Atlanta Ballet dancer Mary Kate McCarthy.
More than 60 teenage girls will model, having begun preparation for the show last year with training in etiquette, public speaking and make-up application.
Tickets are $45 per person with $45 cash back at the show if 10 tickets are purchased at one time. This ‘early bird special’ runs through March 31. Info: www.purefashion.com.
Comments
By Mike
March 26, 2008 12:28 AM | Link to this
Midriff-baring tops for 12-year-olds?! Try SEVEN year olds! Department stores have girly stuff in 4-6X, then Britney-Wear in the 7-16 department. My seven-year-old niece likes to dress like a proper little girl. She likes clothes as presents, so I get her things at the private children’s stores in town and at AprilCornell.com.
By Aimee
March 26, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this
My daughter is 7 and loves to shop. Like her mom. But if it looks like something a grown women should wear she will look at it shake her head and move on to the next outfit. I taught her well…. dont get me wrong sometimes she will pick something up and I will tell her no becuase that is too grown up and she will put it back.
Luckly for me right now for summer all she wants is Hannah Montana T shirts and shorts and some sundresses That I can do :)