modest dress

today hubby and i went down to the shops. i still had $40 left from my birthday money, and i am getting really tired of wearing the same skirt day in day out, so i wanted to see if i could find a nice new one. for the record, i found a brown corduroy skirt i like in target, $24.88 reduced from like $40 or something, get to the checkout and it was all of $10.28. SCORE! so i still have $30 left. yay! maybe i'll buy a new CD since i didnt find any other clothes i like.....

ANYWAY.... so we were out at the shops, and a group of muslim women walked past, and one of them was dressed so... oddly i guess, that i got me really thinking about modesty. it wasnt an isolated event, either. i often see muslim women dressed like this, and it always strikes me as very odd.

now, a lot of muslim women say they dress the way they do, all covered up including hair, not because their men say they have to, but because it is their way of honouring God, by being modest. fair enough. but being 'all covered up' isnt necessarily modest. its the WAY you are covered up, as much as the fact that you are. which is why some of the women i see at the shops bother me so so much.

skintight jeans, 4 inch heels, a figure hugging top with push-up bra, and a ton of makeup and jewellery is not modest, just because no-one can see your hair, or any skin other than your hands and face. honestly, you might as well be wearing a mini-skirt and a tube top. i dressed up my sims to illustrate my point, and because ive been neglecting them a little lately. now, the 'muslim' sim there is all covered up, yes, but to me, the one in the blue shirt is dressed more modestly, even though she is showing more skin.

and now, in true kaeus form, ive just remembered something truly disturbing i saw on the weekend when we were doing our grocery shop in aldi. there was a girl about 14 or so, wearing a pink boob tube, just high enough to cover her bra in the front, and about an inch below it in back, with black knee length tight pants. bike shorts or leggings or something. 14. 14! i mean really... it was just... i couldnt believe it. again, sims illustrate the point. can you imagine? at about 10am at the supermarket? 14 years old???