On sale this week

I posted a while back about one of our new dresses, the Taylor which I LOVE, but I haven't yet announced that we also have 4 other new dresses in for Fall: Kelsey, MaKennzie (in two colors), Taylor and Brecken (also in two colors).

These dresses are 20% off in our store and also online at Diviine Modestee. These are great dresses, I really can't say enough about them. As the resident sizing model for Large, I am so impressed with all these designs. All four of them make me look a size smaller and who doesn't want that? Not ashamed to say that I do! Each one hits below the knee and has a modest neckline.

Use coupon code: diviinedealholiday to get the discount.

Voting Day

If you are like me, your Facebook has been flooded with "Don't forget to vote today!" or "I voted, yea me!" type updates. So I'm not going to remind you to go vote, instead I am going to remind you how to make a fashion statement when voting! How's that for fun?

Fashion for Politics <--------- click here

Wardrobe Basics for Fall-

Fall is definitely in the air and with it comes the new trends and styles for the season. One of the best ways to showcase a trendy addition to your wardrobe is to pair that trend piece with a few simple basics that every wardrobe should have. Make these basics the best quality you can afford since you may be wearing them often.

1. Denim jeans, preferably skinny or straight leg

2. Pencil skirt-Black or a neutral tan

3. Black Leggings

4. Skimmer or ballet flats

5. Cardigan-This season's trend is the 3/4 length sleeve

6. Long layering tanks and tees (white, black, cream and/or grey)

7. Camisoles-Again start with the basic colors listed above.

8. A great pair of boots

Personally my favorite discovery this fall is the legging. What a great way to make what would normally be a too-short dress into a trendy, modest, hip look! The legging used to be strictly for Hollywood Elite or teenagers, but not so any longer. And not only does the legging make a dress modest, but it covers up that extra thigh flab (not that I would know. *sshhhhh.....*)

Modesty is Just So Hard to Find

My nine year-old daughter loves Radio Disney. Every time we ride in the car we must listen to Radio Disney.  If my teenage boys are with us, this causes catastrophic battles in the back seat, and I'll admit that usually I allow my daughter to win this battle because she's...well...louder.  She knows, at age nine, the artists of every song on this radio station:  Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, Emily Osment...you name it, she knows it.  

Today my daughter had a dance lesson and as we are driving along, listening to (what else) Radio Disney, on comes the Jonas Brothers song "Lovebug".  I freely admit that I love this song!  So I'm listening and singing along (which bugs my daughter to no end!  She wants to be the soloist) and one word from the lyrics jumped out at me:  Modesty.  I honestly thought I must have heard wrong, so once home I googled the lyrics.

Called her for the first time yesterday

Finally found the missing part of me

Felt so close, but you were far away

Left me without anything to say

Now I'm speechless, Over the edge of this, Breathless,

I never thought that I'd catch this love bug again

Hopeless, Head over heels in the moment,

I never thought that I'd get hit by this love bug again.

I can't get your smile out of my mind

I think about your eyes all the time

Your beautiful, but you don't even try

Modesty is just so hard to find

(chorus)

Kissed her for the first time yesterday

Everything I wished that it would be

Suddenly, I forgot how to speak

Hopeless, Breathless, Baby can't you...see

I know that boy bands always get a bad rap and Disney boy bands get the baddest rap, BUT...like I said I really like this song.  I don't even care if they are talking about modesty in dress or modesty in action or modesty as in humble.  They are singing a song which promotes modesty to the age group that is the most impressionable:  pre-teens and teens.  The song speaks of innocent young love, you can practically feel it.  The lyrics describe being thrilled at the sight of her smile, her eyes, her beauty.  It is not about being titillated (love that word!) by a peek into a low-cut blouse, or a view of a thigh.  No.  It's a good old fashioned love song celebrating her beauty and modesty.

The movie "Lovebug" is coming out to theatres soon and is set in the 1940's revolving around a young couple who end up at a dance where the Jonas brothers are performing.  The movie follows the couple as they fall in love and separate during the war.

For your viewing pleasure, here's the video off YouTube:

Modesty is New? and Shocking? wha...?

According to an article in CNN todaythis article written by Eileen Putnam I should be shocked to see teens wearing modest clothing. In the article Eileen describes her daughter's choice of choosing a strapless dress topped with a white cardigan to attend a friends Bar Mitzvah.

Personally I don't think that the idea of topping a previously immodest strapless dress with a cardigan, shrug or jacket is anything new. This is what women who have wanted modesty have been doing for years. In fact I seem to remember wearing a lace "jacket" over my Gunnesax by Jessica McClintock Prom dress. But back to the point: it's not a new concept. Unless it IS a new style and I was just way to trendy for my time. I'm sure that framing it as "new" will help make it all the more "hip" to today's high-fashion followers. If the author had called it "old" or "stale" who would want to wear it?

The author also quotes Stephanie Meyerson from Stylesight, a company that "forecasts" fashion as saying:
Covered up can mean put-together (think "Gossip Girl") or disheveled (a bit of Mary-Kate-and-Ashley grunge meets Amy Winehouse). And even that look can have sexual connotations.

"It's the one-night-stand look," Meyerson said. As in the disheveled morning after, clothes with a slept-in feel."

I have to completely disagree that our teenagers, in their modest fashion choices will look either put-together or disheveled ala Mary Kate Olsen. The 'One-night-stand look'? Seriously? 'Sexual connotations'? Uhn-uh! Why is it that even modest fashions MUST have a sexual connotation to some people? Why can't modesty just simply be modest? That, I believe is in the eye and the mind of the beholder.

Besides the fact that if you are "shocked" by your daughters modest choice of clothing then I'm sorry but you have not been guiding her towards modesty. Not if her modesty "shocks" you. If you guide your daughter's (and son's) choices towards modesty from early on, you will not be shocked when they actually do choose modesty.

Yippee for all of us camisole, capsleeve-wearing high fashion women...we are finally right up there on the fashion scale with the Olsen Twins! Makes you just want to don your hole-y tights, big bug-eyed sunglasses and ratty scarf doesn't it?

Model Modesty for your Senior Pictures!

A daughter's Senior year can be a time of great stress or the best time of her life. Seniors get to participate in many activities that are geared towards only them, celebrating their successful leap from child to adult. Senior Prom, Senior Skip Day, Graduation and Senior Pictures are all part of the process of graduating High School...along with passing grades, of course! Senior pictures can cause both mother and daughter stress as they search together for the perfect outfits that will be immortalized in photo form forever. Often moms and daughters are at odds in determining clothing her daughter wears every day, but especially for Senior Pictures. Mothers of high school seniors are looking for the perfect outfits that advertise their daughter's style and sparkle but not her figure. With the following tips you can guide your daughter to being remembered for her uniqueness and beauty not her body.

Senior pictures are in the thoughts and minds of just about all Seniors nationwide right now. The "in the know" mothers realize that schools and yearbook companies do not wait until the end of the school year to ask for senior portrait submittal. Therefore Senior pictures are generally taken in the heat of the summer or the warmth of fall, which too easily allows for memorializing many senior girls' choices of immodest clothing. Yet modest clothing can be modern and hip enough for even the pickiest of teenagers if you know how to put a modest outfit together and where to look for modest clothing.

First, think of the latest layering trend. Hopefully this trend is here to stay, but unfortunately like most fashion trends it will phase out eventually. BUT...take advantage of it now! Camisoles, cap-sleeve shirts and long-length T-shirts have been around for a while and some have probably made it into your closet. This is a great start! Layering a colored camisole underneath what would normally be a too-short shirt, jacket or sweater not only gives modesty, but also adds texture and color to an outfit. Choose a lace-edged camisole and you've added even MORE texture. Some teens even put together outfits with several layers: two camisoles of different colors, one lace one plain, topped with a shirt and then a jacket or hoodie. This look gives color and variety to the waist area when all the different layers show.

Camisoles will also add interest and draw the eye upward to the face when used underneath a shirt or dress that may have a too-low neckline.

No wonder teenagers love the styles that layering provides and better yet, moms love the modesty. It's a win-win for both moms and daughters!

Cap-sleeve shirts are a quick fix to any sleeveless shirt or dress. So called babydoll style tops are in style this year, however many are sleeveless or have spagetti-straps. Throw a cap-sleeve tee underneath and you've created a modest ensemble that is colorful AND trendy. Just what your daughter wants. And maybe, hopefully...even you!

Second, think of skirt and shirt options. Skirts can be modest without bringing Grandma and her knee-hi stockings to mind. A knee-length skirt with a matching blouse or T-shirt is more modest than a dress of the same lenght. Many seasoned fashion-conscious women have realized that the dress that is knee-length when worn standing is only mid-thigh when sitting or bending over. A skirt and shirt combination changes this problem from being potentially immodest to being modest, adding versatility as well, since most skirts will have several shirts that match it, altering the look and the style. A skirt can go from semi-formal to semi-casual with the quick change of a satin blouse to a T-shirt and denim jacket. Plus many different looks in-between.

Of course you can find the styles mentioned at Diviine ModesTee, since this is Diviine ModesTees blog. Check out the store website since many of the items mentioned are on sale or even clearance. What could really be better than a clearance cami? Even better your daughter will make a statement in her Senior yearbook by being remembered for her style and hip fashion, not her sexuality. Of course, if she wants to be remembered for her sexuality then you've got a problem!