Some thoughts on raising modest girls (I’m blessed to have two!): Exercise your parental authority. See this previous post. There’s no better text for giving them the tools to be “artistically” beautiful than that book I push. Get rid of your TV. Don’t buy foo-foo shoes. What kindergartener needs platform sandals? I wish I knew …
The short answer is: it’s Biblical. Often, as young people move towards finding their own personal style idiom, they either experiment or rebel. While rebellion can often be avoided (IMO most rebellion can be avoided by not forcing kids to wear polo shirts), I consider experimenting to be rather a normal part of this stage …
Mom wondered what we’d tell Sarah Palin about the length of her skirts. Did anyone watch the resignation speech? We couldn’t find a good picture; Mom, I think, thinks her skirt was much too short; I think, at minimum, her ensemble offended the golden mean proportion, looking boxy (as explained by Imogen at this link). …
