A catholic fashion article.

It took Alyssa Webster “forever” to find the perfect dress for her confirmation at her Catholic church.

“I went to six or seven stores. I saw tight, tight skirts and dresses that were really, really tight. It was really hard to find the right length skirts. They were either really short and they were low slung, around my hips,” says the 16-year-old Kirkland teen who attends the Holy Names Academy in Seattle.

She settled on a black and white floral dress. But it was strapless. Her solution to make it fit her more conservative look — a pink cardigan. With the cardigan and a dress length just below her knees, she felt it was the perfect look for her April confirmation.

She’ll also wear the outfit May 23 when she and members of the Kirkland-based Challenge Club of Greater Seattle, a Catholic group for girls ages 10 to 16, will model what they call “tasteful” clothes with a focus on modesty. The “Pure Fashion” show begins at 2 p.m. May 23 at the Bellevue Hyatt Regency Wintergarden. Tickets are $25 and include dessert and coffee. The keynote speaker, Dr. Coleen Kelly Mast, will give a speech called “What a Girl Wants and How to Get It.”

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