Through Feminine Farmgirl (a blog I follow) I found out about the Feelin' Feminine Challenge. The challenge is to wear only skirts/dresses for an entire week. I will be joining the challenge in August and will be posting pictures of what I wear every day here. I know that some of you do not have blogs, but you can still join the challenge anyway (please leave a comment to this post that you are doing so). If you do not have a blog, you are welcome to post comments about what you think of the Challenge.
Below I have copied information about the Challenge and Mission from the Feelin' Feminine website.
Our Mission:
To encourage, inspire, and challenge young ladies to rediscover the treasure of dressing in a feminine manner. So we may be an example in a world where true beauty has been lost – in a world where beauty is defined by the culture. We hope to convey a message that true beauty is an inward appearance of the heart and spirit that is shown outwardly in dressing in a manner that is and directs all radiance and honour to our Maker, and not one for self-gain.
The Challenge
The challenge is to wear only skirts/dresses for an entire week of seven days, and then post a photo of your outfits (head to toe) on your blog. If you don’t have exactly seven different skirts, that’s alright. Mix and match with different shirts. We can be not only feminine and modest, but frugal too!
What is on the inside will show on the outside so dressing in a feminine manner in this way shows what we desire and strive for at heart. Why dresses and skirts, you ask? Read through the website. Dressing in a feminine manner doesn’t mean you must lose your respectability. It means you value your respectability and wish to honour to the Father and to yourself more than the whims of society.
If you want to “personalize” your outfit a bit more you can add a hat, a scarf, a headband, a matching purse – whatever you like! You can also style your hair in different ways each day. We do want to encourage you to remember our focus is not to be fashionable or blend in with the world, but to be set apart in our dress.
While there are no outfit ‘requirements’, we do ask, for the sake of our mission, writers, and readers please make sure that your dresses and skirts are at least knee length and that none of your shirts are sleeveless. Show us pictures of daily activities of you in your skirts.
I’ve heard a lot of ladies tell me that they don’t like wearing skirts because they can’t be active in them. I very much so disagree. I’ve worn skirts everyday since 2005 and they haven’t stifled my activity in the least. I still do all the things I used to do, but in a more mindful and ladylike way. Try it.
Already Wear Skirts?
If you already wear skirts on a regular basis, please don’t let that stop you. Participate anyway! This is for all ladies – ask your mother, sisters, grandmas, aunts, and girlfriends to do it with you! Post a flier at your church – email us, we will send you one to print out!
The Goal Of The Challenge:
As our Mission Statement says we want to encourage, inspire, and challenging young ladies to rediscover the treasure of dressing in a feminine manner. Do some evaluating of yourself at the end of the week and compare it to your regular way of dress. These questions should help you along:
How was the experience for you?Any particular stories?Did wearing skirts rather than pants affect the way you felt?The way you felt about yourself?The way you acted?The way you carried yourself?Were you able to go about everyday activity as freely as pants?How did people respond?After the challenge do you desire to keep wearing skirts more regularly, or were you desperate to wear pants again?
If you’d like to have your answers to the above questions share on the site, please gohere to do so. We’d love to hear them.
The Challenge usually “officially” takes place at the beginning of each month for a week. We will post an article with a link to the host-blog so you can join in with other participants. This certainly does not mean we only want you to actually do the challenge then or don’t do it because you missed the first day. We always want to see photos and always want you to join us, no matter how late in the week!
I hope you join me!
Lauren Ashley
Lauren Ashley
that's neat! I will look into it. Maybe if I can get a few more skirts.
ReplyDeleteHannah: You do not have to have many skirts to do this. I have one skirt that I like to wear 5-6 days a week. Often I put it in the wash just before I go to bed, and put it in the dryer as soon as I wake up.
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