Forget secular society's usual low necklines and short skirts. Now, apparently, if you're covered up, you're cutting-edge. So why does this trend make me both happy and sort of queasy?
I was born into an Orthodox family. Rules of modest dressing—very generally, high necklines and covered knees and elbows—were a given. My mom, my sister, my friends at my all-girls Orthodox school dressed as I did. Same for the women on our side of the mechitza at shul and the girls in my Shabbat afternoon group. How we dressed was part of who we were.
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