For our YW activity in June the Mia Maids put on a fashion show entitled, "What Not to Wear: Modesty Edition". Our Mia Maids strutted their stuff as they showed us the modest way to dress as opposed to the immodest way to dress which was demonstrated by some very cooperative Barbie dolls. The evening was capped off by some delicious, yet modestly decorated sugar cookies.
"Modesty in dress and manner will assist in protecting against temptation. It may be difficult to find modest clothing, but it can be found with enough effort. I sometimes wish every girl had access to a sewing machine and training in how to use it. She could then make her own attractive clothing. I suppose this is an unrealistic wish. But I do not hesitate to say that you can be attractive without being immodest. You can be refreshing and buoyant and beautiful in your dress and in your behavior. Your appeal to others will come of your personality, which is the sum of your individual characteristics. Be happy. Wear a smile. Have fun. But draw some rigid parameters, a line in the sand, as it were, beyond which you will not go." -President Gordon B. Hinckley, 2004 from a talk entitled, "Stay on the High Road"
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