Eliza Magazine is featuring 4 designers in the Fall issue, I am honored to be amongst them. Here is a few interview questions they asked me via email. Is there anything you would have added?

Name: Christa Taylor
Religion: Christian
Position in Company: Designer
Company: Christa Taylor
What does “Modesty” mean to you?: For me, modesty is foremost an issue of the heart In essence, it’s humility of heart, expressed in dress. My clothes are a public statement of my private motivation. I typically ask myself with any given outfit: Why am I wearing what I’m wearing? Once my heart is in the right place, my attire follows.

What does your religion say about how you should dress? What are the specific guidelines that you follow? (knee, wrist, fit, etc)
The Apostle Paul in the book 1 Timothy, chaptor 2, explains how the Christian woman should dress. “likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness–with good works.” The issue isn’t braided hair, or pearls, or costly attire in and of themselves. The issue is the association through this attire with values that are clearly worldy and not godly. As a Christian I desire to be noticed primarily for my good works not my latest fashion purchase.
Whereas there are no universal modesty guidelines in Christianity, each is to do the hard work of analyzing their wardrobe in light of what honors God. Sadly, because of the pressures of our morally decayed culture, many girls are unaware of, or willfully ignore, the impact their wardrobe has on the hearts and minds of men.

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