Models of Modesty
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Teens show off discrete choices at fashion show By Robyn Ly######, Staff Writer05/17/2007On a rainy Sunday, 325 people filled a ballroom at the Inverness to hear Mrs. America - Marney Duckworth of Highlands Ranch - and see the teenagers in their life model modest fashions.

Yes, teenagers were not dressed like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, by choice.

Starting in the late 1990s, a Christian movement toward more modest but still fashionable clothing gained momentum.

On a different, sunny Sunday a week earlier, Jewish women met for a Spa for the Soul at Cherry Creek Yacht club to hear Molly Resnick, producer of the NBC show "Five Minutes With ..." talk about becoming a more modest woman returning to faith.

Both groups sought the same thing: defining who they are in the face of secular culture.

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All point to passages in the Torah or New Testament.

For Jews, the laws come from a sense of holiness and the thought that the body houses the soul.

"The laws of modesty are primarily derived from the verse, 'For the Lord, your God, walks in the midst of your camp to rescue you and to deliver your enemies before you; so your camp shall be holy, so that he will not see a shameful thing among you and turn away from behind you,' (Deuteronomy 23:15)," said Hindy Mintz, of the Denver Jewish Center, 5922 East County Line Road in Highlands Ranch. "The reason why we need to be careful in the way we dress and act is because our body is the housing for our soul.

"That is why we treat it with respect and dignity. Modest clothes and dressing and acting in the way the Torah prescribes is a way of dressing to express the neshama - the godly soul inside you."

At Spa for the Soul, Resnick touched on this as she talked about sunning in a two-piece bathing suit while reading sacred texts.

"I know I shouldn't have been doing that," she said. "But I didn't know it then."

Resnick talked about changing her profession, she now runs a nonprofit called MATCKH - Mothers Against Teaching Children to Kill and Hate - that exposes anti-Jewish rhetoric in Palestinian media and teaching materials, to fit into her newly observant life.

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Shealeene Coe, a Mountain Ridge eighth-grader, has a modeling career outside of the modesty world through a talent agency in Denver.

When the shoot has clothing Coe considers too immodest, she quits the shoot.

"Some people do want to show more skin," Coe said. "But we are 12 and 13 years old."

Emily O'Neill and Hannah Woolach are best friends at Regis High School.

They signed up for the eight-month modeling course the same night, not knowing the other had done so until the next day at school.

Families invested about $200 between the course and some clothes.

To be in the Pure Fashion show, models have weeks of training in every aspect of modeling from the walk to makeup.

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