Chapter 8

As I was reading through Chapter 8, the remarks from Senecs the Younger regarding the moral impact of wearing skimpy silk garments caught my eye.

"..if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes...Wretched flocks of maids labour so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body".


This observation seemed a little extreme to me but we can definately compare it to our modern times regarding the way younger generations dress in contrast to their grandparents or parents generation. So this shows us that the way a woman dresses has always been a topic of great concern and out cry to people through out history.