Our Clothes

A few girls recently involved in the national organization, Younglife, hosted a sleepover, featuring a What Not To Wear-inspired fashion show. Together, they also watched a few episodes of the TLC television show. More important than the clothes, Litz and Savard desired to give the girls a better understanding of what messages their clothes were communicating.

"Respecting their bodies wasn't high on their priority lists," Savard said. "It was: 'What attention can I get, and how can I get it?'"

"We just wanted to extend to them that if you take the time to find things that fit well, you can really transform how you look and feel about yourself,"
Litz said. "If you are dressing for your body, then that's when you're the most beautiful."

The girls embarked the next day on a shopping trip, lasting eight hours, and proved to be quite exhausting. "We learned a lot of nice ways to say no," Litz said. But, the experience was instrumental in helping the girls understand that clothing can both express and invite respect.

"A lot of them [had] put up walls," Savard said. "'People are going to notice me for this.' In reality, they were making up for something else. It's just been cool to help them come through that. It was definitely something that God did, and I was so happy to be a part of it."

---I do not intend for this story to tell you what you should and shouldn't wear, but to be critical when you look at yourself in the mirror. Look for meaning behind the reasons why you wear certain things.
Your clothes, even without any labels or logos on them, send messages to the opposite sex, the same sex, and people you do not know.