Books about Modesty

	Shaunti Feldhahn Surveys	Author Shaunti Feldhahn details survey findings about the importance of modest clothing choices for women in a variety of books. Follow the primary link to visit Shaunti's website or read our reviews about the insights on modesty from three of her books.
	What Guys Think About What Girls Wear	Pastor, author, husband and father Carey Waldie from Michigan has developed a DVD to instruct young women about the "positive power of modesty" and its ability to help attract and keep the right kind of man, one who will be a "prince and not a frog." This DVD presentation is useful for camps and youth groups and is targeted to a very contemporary audience.
	Pure Freedom	This official site of Christian authors Bob and Dannah Gresh is rich with educational content promoting modesty. From the site's introduction, "Pure Freedom . . . provides resources in the form of books and live events to equip men and women of all ages to live lives of purity. Dannah provides a special emphasis on equipping moms to raise their tween girls to be sexually pure, modest and emotionally whole teen girls."
	Secret Keeper Girl	This is the official site for Christian author and speaker Dannah Gresh's Secret Keeper Girl event that target mothers and tween daughters, during which event facilitators teach modesty and “true beauty.” This website is rich with additional resources for moms and tweens, including illustrated modesty guidelines for girls.
	Revive Our Hearts	Around a thousand links to multi-media resources related to modesty are listed at the Revive Our Hearts website, the official site of Christian author and speaker Nancy Leigh DeMoss. In her book The Look: Does God Really Care What I Wear?, DeMoss endeavors to move beyond the initial questions that are commonly raised when the word "modest" is mentioned, such as assumed lack of style, and on toward discovering underlying biblical principles about dress and the truth about clothing and modesty. A CD of Nancy's Modesty radio series may be ordered in combination with the book from her website.
	The Lost Art of True Beauty	Author Leslie Ludy shares her Christian perspective on true beauty, which is a focus on inward spiritual and character development rather than obsession with outward appearance. Though most of the content centers around attitudes and actions, several chapters address style of clothing, especially Chapter Six, "Dressing With Selfless Style." Leslie and her husband Eric host conferences in Colorado for young people to reinforce the messages of their books. Visit their website to learn more about the Set Apart Girl Conferences that coordinate with this book's theme.
	Dressing With Dignity	Catholic author Colleen Hammond presents her case for modest dressing using examples from her own life experience as she transformed away from values she had during her early modeling, acting and television broadcasting days. The author also draws from numerous Biblical and church writings.
	The Beauty of Modesty	Writing to a Christian audience, David and Diane Vaughn offer a theological perspective on the cultural onslaught of immodesty and how to address it within church settings.
	Your Clothes Say It for You	This book by Elizabeth Rice Handford, originally written around the 1960s, remains a key resource for Fundamental Baptists who adhere to the King James Version and a "dresses only" standard for women. This book is out of print but may still be ordered through our link to Modest Apparel USA or through Amazon. Handford is currently on the board of directors of Joyful Christian Ministries, a Baptist organization that allows women to wear pants, so the approach of this decades-old book does not necessarily reflect her present views.
	Extra Modesty Resources	Some of the online modesty resources we find just do not seem to fit anywhere else on the Fashion Belle site, so we have collected those links on a page of Extras.
	Modeling Christ by Rachel Lee Carter	Rachel Lee Carter is an international fashion model and Christian speaker on the topics of modeling, fashion, modesty and purity. Her home website lists her speaking schedule in the United States and provides purchase information for her book, Fashioned by Faith.
	Deseret Book	Deseret Book is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and publishes several resources on "modesty" (use the search bar to also search for "modest"). Although the LDS philosophy behind modest dressing differs from that of many other groups, it has some of the strongest adherents to modesty standards in Western culture who operate many fine modest clothing manufacturing businesses. To summarize the subtle differences, the LDS church teaches that dressing modestly includes wearing religious undergarments that are fully covered by regular clothing in fulfillment of spiritual covenants for salvation, while most Christian groups believe that salvation comes through faith alone and that dressing modestly is an outward evidence of inward faith, as explained in the Bible study about modesty on the Fashion Belle site.

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