on The Apparel Of Women Paperback -

Female Habit Carries With It ATwofold Idea?dress And OrnamentBy ?dress? We Mean What They Call ?womanly Gracing,? By ?ornament,? What It Is Suitable Should Be Called ?womanly Disgracing.? The Former Is Accounted to Consist In Gold, And Silver, And Gems, And Garments, The Latter In Care Of The Hair, And Of The Skin, And Of Those Parts Of The Body Which Attract The EyeAgainst The One We Lay The Charge Of Ambition, Against The Other Of Prostitution, So That Even From This Early Stage of Our Discussion You May Look Forward And See What, Out Of all These, Is Suitable, Handmaid Of God, To Your Discipline, Inasmuch As You Are Assessed On Different Principles from Other Women, ?those, Namely, Of Humility And Chastity'