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06 May 2010

More Like Mary More Like Me

By Colleen Hammond, in Catholic Church, Dressing with Dignity, Fashion, Immodest, Modesty, Skirts | 26 Responses 26 Comments

A fabulous commentary from Kaitlin over at More Like Mary More Like Me!

And just a refresher on what the Vatican guidelines ARE for modesty:

“A dress cannot be called decent which is cut deeper than two fingers breadth under the pit of the throat; which does not cover the arms at least to the elbows; scarcely reaches a bit beyond the knees.  Furthermore, dresses of transparent materials are improper.”

Here’s Kaitlin’s blog posting:

I decided to join with a few other bloggers and tackle the Dress Dare featured on the Defining Beauty blog.  Basically-it encourages women to … Read the rest

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Posted in Catholic Church, Dressing with Dignity, Fashion, Immodest, Modesty, Skirts | Tagged arms, below, cover, elbows, Fashion, femininity, Fingers, guidelines, Immodest, Like, Mary, materials, Me, Modesty, more, Skirts, throat, transparent, two, Vatican | 26 Responses

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