The Virtue of Modesty
On my other blog, I wrote a post entitled which provided a link to this article: More girls push for modest fashion. The article claims that the "sexy librarian" look is now "in" again. This is good news.
Korean women tend to be much more attractive than their Western counterparts mainly because they dress modestly. The "one-pieces" Korean women wear on dates, to the university, or to church are much more flattering than the skimpy clothes worn in the West. Even the hanbok, which reveals nothing, is a very flattering piece of clothing. The revealing clothes worn by Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are not sexy but revolting. I would like to see women in the West emulate the fashion-sense of Korean women.
I also noticed the beauty of modesty while living in conservative Chile and Malaysia; downtown Santiago would fill with beautiful smartly-dressed secretaries at lunchtime and some of the most beautiful women in Kuala Lumpur were the Muslim Malays wearing the baju kurung and tudong (not all Muslim women wear the chador).
C.S. Lewis was correct to point out that modesty is to a certain extent relative; a top-less Polynesian woman can possess more modesty than a fully-clothed women of another culture. This just goes to prove that modesty is a universal virtue, not dependant on clothing or culture.
On my other blog, I wrote a post entitled which provided a link to this article: More girls push for modest fashion. The article claims that the "sexy librarian" look is now "in" again. This is good news.
Korean women tend to be much more attractive than their Western counterparts mainly because they dress modestly. The "one-pieces" Korean women wear on dates, to the university, or to church are much more flattering than the skimpy clothes worn in the West. Even the hanbok, which reveals nothing, is a very flattering piece of clothing. The revealing clothes worn by Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are not sexy but revolting. I would like to see women in the West emulate the fashion-sense of Korean women.
I also noticed the beauty of modesty while living in conservative Chile and Malaysia; downtown Santiago would fill with beautiful smartly-dressed secretaries at lunchtime and some of the most beautiful women in Kuala Lumpur were the Muslim Malays wearing the baju kurung and tudong (not all Muslim women wear the chador).
C.S. Lewis was correct to point out that modesty is to a certain extent relative; a top-less Polynesian woman can possess more modesty than a fully-clothed women of another culture. This just goes to prove that modesty is a universal virtue, not dependant on clothing or culture.
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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