So, how important is it to dress well? Do you abide by the old advice of, "You will act how you dress"? Public schools once held dress codes for this reason and most workplaces currently have some sort of dress code in place.
Consider the 14 year old from Cleveland, OH who just shot and injured four others before killing himself. Classmates described his style of dress as "Goethe"; black, skulls, trench coats. The question is, are you what you wear, or is it the other way around: what you wear shows who you are? Perhaps the answer is a little bit of both. Either way, our way of dressing certainly puts our values on display for the world to see.
If you think you don't need to worry about dress until your children are in middle school, think again. "Hip" parents are working hard to make sure their babies are also "hip." This article http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21108690/ caught my attention today and got me thinking. These parents are working hard to make sure their children are getting a message, but are they getting the message their parents think they are? Rather than learning to be "hip", I wouldn't be surprised if these kids learn that their parents' fun takes priority and that the latest fashions are more important than kindness, self-control, etc....
Of course I'm not saying to dress your kids in rags, but please, let them be children and preserve their innocence. Don't dress your 2 year old like a little tart, she might become one.
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Yeah, that's why a lot of schools are returning to uniforms (guised by the euphemism "dress code," but students know what it really is.) What I struggle with more, though, is the mulitplicitous (if that's not a word, it is one now) instances of Christian women I know wearing (as you say) "tart"-like clothing. And their preteen and teen daughters are wearing the same. The excuse may be, well, they don't sell anything anymore that's not low-cut. Poor excuse. And not true.
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