So for Young Womens this week I decided to really hit them hard with modesty. In today’s world it seems to be hard for the girls to be modest when they want to be fashionable. They also seem to be afraid of wearing certain clothes because by themselves they are not modest but they don’t realize you can make them modest- SO I planned a Modesty fashion show but the twist was I collected tons of clothes from tons of people who are awesome and over a few weeks I was able to get a huge selection. I was also able to clear with our budget to buy them all new under shirts from down east so they could stay modest. We spoke to them before hand about how to be modest in all different ways and had the bishop take a few moments as well. Then we set all the clothes out on tables and told the girls they were there to make a cute outfit and they would walk the runway and show them to us- we had tables lined on the ground to look like a runway with lights around both sides and a big sign that said “Modest is hottest fashion show”. The fun thing was they didn’t know they could keep the clothes until the very end- It was fun because we kept hearing things like “oh I wish I had this” “I want this outfit now” and “whos are these cause they just lost them!” J It made more and more excited to tell them that they could have them- I had 6 categories they needed to make an outfit for (first day of school, sportie, spunkie/edgy, night out with the girls, date night and formal) they were judged on each category on if it was modest, fashionable, and how well it matched the category- (We had the bishop join us for one of our judges) these points came into play at the end… Well during the show we were able to help them pick out clothes that looked good together and tell the to pick a new shirt cause the one they picked was too small or didn’t look good- (we were fun about it) hehehe. We wanted them to learn how to dress good and appropriately. They got better and better as the night went on. They had so much fun with it and didn’t want it to end. The best part of all is when we told them they could keep the clothes- their faces light up better than if it were Christmas and all gasped and shouted “really” and as they were about to run over to the clothes we told them to be respectful and help each other out so everyone gets clothes that they want. They were actually very good at sharing and picking things out for each other and their were no fights about anything- we thought there would be more girls wanting the same thing and that why we did points for judging so they could bid on the item with their points but it only happened one time and it went smoothly! The best part for me is when one girl came to me with pools in her eyes and said “like I appreciate this sooo much, you have no idea, I just feel so grateful” her dad had lost his job this summer and she never got the chance to go school shopping- That made everything worth it! We had so much help and contributions and it was such a fun activity- I will probably make this an annual thing!
piles of clothes collected all clothes on the left are smalls then the next row is Medium then large and then Xlarge... we also got shoes and jewelry and other accessories!
