Is it a belt or a skirt?
May 8th, 2007 by 
ruah
When clothes shopping, do you find yourself wondering, “Is it a belt or skirt?” “Is it a bra or tank top?” “At what point do those jeans cease to be jeans and begin to be leg warmers?”
You’re not alone, certainly, despite the Cosmopolitan & Maxim lobby telling us otherwise. Carolyn Moynihan’s smart and stylish article reminds us of transcendent values in the art of good fashion.
She uses words like “art,” “symbol,” “dignity,” and “virtue,” not to shake a fundamentalist finger at trendsetters, but to bring our culture–particularly women–forward into a place where we realize our beauty, dignity and even our “feminine genius.” And in that shining summit we say, “I am too beautiful to treat myself like I am for sale at the cost of my dignity.” The word “dignity” can have a rather opaque connotation, but here we mean “worthy of being honored and revered.” Are you worthy of being honored? Then start treating yourself like it, and dressing likewise.
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