
Quite a provocative question, this: What does it mean to be ladylike?
As you stepped into your clothes this morning, did you embrace the love of God who longs for you to be appreciated for who you are – not just what you look like?
At home or away, a ladylike daughter of the King represents not only herself but, even more so, the Lord. I believe it is important we embrace this inescapable outward aspect of our lives and craft our wardrobes to honor God. After all, He made woman the crowning touch of all creation. God places a high value on what we do with our bodies since we are His temple (1 Cor. 6:19).
Whether pint-sized, average, or plus-sized, when we choose ladylike beauty over the sensual, we are choosing the Lord’s ways over the world’s ways.
It is living by design, not by default.
“I grew up thinking modesty was just about helping guys in their battle against lust. But modesty isn’t about preventing men from lusting after women. While we should desire to help Christian men uphold purity, we have our own responsibility to walk purely. This means that in every decision we shouldn’t be asking, “How does this make ME feel?” or “How far can I go?” but “How holy can I be?”
“Modesty is humility in action. This is why Christian girls should be the very BEST at it! We have been given the gracious love of God. Not only that, God has explicitly outlined just how valuable we are to Him. The fact that Almighty God loves imperfect girls like us is humbling, and our response is to worship God in every area of life – including how we dress. In realizing how much God loved me and how beautifully He designed my body, I realized that I was devaluing His best intentions by wearing my _______ [whatever you feel is inappropriate for you to wear], and I put it away for good.” ~Phylicia Masonheimer, What a Bikini Taught Me About Modesty
We can be modern and up-to-date and yet be culture-changers by dressing in a ladylike way. As Phylicia says above, “Christian girls and women should be the very BEST at it.”
25 Classic Ladylike Looks
Here is a whole page of ladylike looks – some casual as well as dressier ones to get you thinking:


I love her fresh colors! Very slimming and pretty.
Visit my post on Modest, Feminine Dressing for the Plus Size Woman to see much more.
When choosing styles, another great idea is to pick something that is not so trendy that it will date itself in 5 years. Identify items in today’s styles that have been “classic” for the past 60 years, and go with those.
Such items would include: leather riding boots (preferably with no heel), cardigans, scarves, lace, pretty blouses, blazers, belts, and flowing skirts or maxi skirts.
This is one way to switch up a wardrobe and change your look. Did you catch that she turned a maxi into a dress?

Happy colors! Thoroughly ladylike.

Tutorial: cute fabric, cute skirt.

A ladylike outfit, properly put together, can say, “I love being a woman”:

A beautifully soft and romantic look in not-so-tight jeans.

Visit my post on Modest, Feminine Dressing for the Plus Size Woman to see much more.
Dressing up is something many little girls love to do, and that enjoyment continues into womanhood.
I hope that never changes…how sad it would be to lost that love of being a woman. It is a wondrous thing being the fairer sex.
For those casual days of shopping or running errands, I love the classic jean jacket over a maxi. It’s a look that won’t easily be dated, and it hides a multitude of flaws.

The ever-in-style cardigan is so helpful to extend wardrobe options over those layering tops.
As the weather gets cooler, it’s a necessity to have layers handy. Merona and Mossimo are the labels for Target. Their basic cardigans come in many colors, are very well made, yet inexpensive. Ours have lasted for years.
Here are some variations (classic button-down, tailed, belted, or embellished):


A pretty, feminine blouse or tunic can be worn so many ways: tucked in, out and loose, belted, under any comfortable sweater or blazer if it turns chilly.
Lace, satin, and chiffon never go out of style for that big night out.

To see much more, visit my post A Portrait of Feminine Dress ~ From Church to Wedding.
“The world knows beauty matters. They talk a lot about it, write poetry and paint paintings celebrating it, and spend $160 billion dollars a year on it. But what’s equally clear is that they don’t know what it is. The question is: Do we?
“Today’s young Christian women have grown up in the most image-obsessed generation in history, a generation that worships some of the most twisted ideals of beauty the world has ever seen. But whether we love them or hate them… they tend to shape our own perceptions of what beauty is. Some of us accept its ideals, and struggle to fit into its mold – others of us are repulsed by it, concluding that physical beauty itself is immodest, worldly, and unspiritual, and reject the realm of beautification completely. But when all we’ve ever seen is the counterfeit the world offers, we can sometimes forget that the world did not create beauty – God did. And though we all know the world has a lot to say about image, we sometimes don’t realize how much God does too.” (Source)

The weather will change sooner than you think.
“Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress;
’Midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed,
With joy shall I lift up my head.”
~ Nikolaus L. von Zinzendorf
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Deanna Rabe
Thank you for this post. I love getting inspired and all the photos do just that! My girls and I favor a feminine look and use many of these ideas already!
That wedding dress is stunning, and yet so are the everyday outfits. So pretty.
I like that we can each have our ‘style’ and yet all be feminine and pretty!
Charlotte Moore
I love wearing long skirts and dresses. Not fond at all if they are not at least 4-5 inches below my knee. I feel like I don’t have anything on the bottom. I sure don’t want them too tight. A-line is my favorite. Hard to find sometimes.
Jacqueline
I used to be all skirts (for about 5 years), but our life on a farm keeps me in need of some good jeans, but I don’t like them tight…makes me too hot 🙂 I wear skirts about 75% of the time here. I want to be modestly feminine in whatever I wear 🙂
God bless you, Charlotte!
leticia justus
oh just so beautiful and lovely !!!!
I loved seeing some Pins that I already have on a board called Wear 🙂
thank you for inspiring us to loveliness , beauty and the true glory of being woman !
-leticia
Jacqueline
It was a lot of fun, Leticia! THANK YOU!
Amanda
Such beautiful inspiration. I am anxious for fall so I can wear some layers and cardigans. Thank you for this great encouragement. I really need to break out my sewing machine and learn to sew for myself in addition to my daughter. There were some skirts here that are simply lovely, but I know I’d never be able to find anything like it locally.
Jacqueline
Thanks, Amanda, for stopping by! I loved looking through the good, the bad, and the ugly…It helped me to crystallize my tastes & thoughts on style a bit and sounds like it has for you, too!
Do break out the sewing machine! I will be sewing something soon! Enjoy it with your daughter, side by side!
Ann
What well written thoughts on dressing. I dress modestly, but, my thought process is how do I appear to those around me, not necessarily how do I dress spiritually. We are all, first, spiritual beings. This thought shift, really helps bring me closer to the Lord, as I start my day; as much as prayer. A wonderful way to dress, an intentional way as you say, thinking of your body as the temple the Lord has given you to do the work He has prepared you to do today.
Thank you so much, Jacqueline, for helping me make a deeper connection to this daily ritual. It is a shift that has me living closer to Him and seeking to see the Day the Lord has given me as a wonderful gift to report back to Him at the end of the day how it went.
My thoughts have gone as far as thinking, what if I actually met the Lord today! Would I be OK with my appearance, thoughts and actions? They are interrelated.
Jacqueline
Ann, you should be a writer! That is relevant and beautiful in light of the sick world we live in today! How wonderful if He would return today!!!
Bless you, dearie 🙂
Marie
Hi. I am new to your site…just found you yesterday, but I am delighted…so I may end up commenting on old posts.
I can remember when “denim jumpers” were supposed to be feminine and godly…um, NO!! I really appreciate the variety of clothing that you have shown; it acknowledges that we don’t need to look all alike, have the same style, or pretend we are living in 1890.
Jacqueline
Wow! I am LOVING all your comments, Marie 😀 I do need to do another clothes post 😉 Gorgeous blouse!!
Marie
p.s. I have the exact cream colored lace blouse that you have shown with the jeans and the blazer…I love it.
I am a small women, but have a very “wobbly” tummy and not much of a waist. I would love to see pictures of clothes that look good on less-than-perfect shapes. (sigh, if we all could have tiny waists) I notice you had a few, so thanks for that,
Tianna
love all of these! esp that first blue dress 😀 thanks for sharing!
Sarah
So many beautiful looks. I am loving all of the layered antique looking lace skirts!
Thanks for this compilation. 🤗♥️