[A paper I made for English...]
Clothes. Fashion. That is the weakness of most girls. The latest styles beckon to us from posters, advertisements on the newspapers and TV, and shop windows. The choices vary and sometimes the price is tempting.
Girls tend to overdo themselves when it comes to clothing and jewelry. They want to follow the latest outfit of their favorite celebrity or fashion model. There is an air of competition when it comes to the latest styles, and girls will do anything to get their hands on those fashionable clothes, no matter how expensive the price or how immodest the appearance.
Where has the sense of modesty and reserve gone? Everywhere I go, I see young women wearing such extravagant outfits – backless blouses, tank or tube tops, shirts that expose their bare midriffs, mini skirts, tight, tight clothing, plunging necklines, backless blouses – all fashionable but immodest. Does it matter to a girl whether or not her outfits display modesty? Not anymore, I’m afraid. We live in a generation where people seek to attract other people to themselves. Modesty is an old-fashioned, outdated word. Girls don’t care to dress simply. They don’t care about displaying a decent and appropriate look. They would rather wear fashionable but immodest clothes.
"There’s a difference between dressing attractively and dressing to attract,” says Shannon Harris. The problem with teenagers today is that they view modesty as some sort of “prison” where they’re not allowed to look good or wear anything beautiful. Dressing attractively simply means creating a new style that looks good on you. Dressing to attract, on the other hand means dressing in a manner that will draw attention to you body and sometimes cause people to see you in a wrong way.
I’m not saying that fashion is bad. There’s nothing wrong with fussing over clothes. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to look beautiful. It becomes wrong, however, when you yield to immoral ways of being beautiful.
Some people argue by saying “It’s a new world!” or “Times are changing!” Yes, it may be a new world, and times may be changing. Perhaps old-fashioned people like me haven’t yet caught up with the rest. But even if fashion has changed over the centuries, have moral conducts and standards changed too? I honestly hope not.
Modesty does not have to be a “prison.” Nor does it mean that you can’t be beautiful. Modesty is simply taking the effort to dress in an attractive yet “quiet” way. It is looking stylish, yet appropriate. It means simply means dressing fashionably, yet modestly.
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