25 Classic Ladylike Looks For You: Spring Heading Into Summer

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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