Of Women's Dress. - ANF03. Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian

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Chapter XX.—Of Women’s Dress.

So far, however, as regards the dress of women, the variety of observance compels us—men of no consideration whatever—to treat, presumptuously indeed, after the most holy apostle,⁸⁸⁷¹

⁸⁸⁷¹ See 1 Cor. xi. 1–16; 1 Tim. ii. 9, 10.
except in so far as it will not be presumptuously if we treat the subject in accordance with the apostle. Touching modesty of dress and ornamentation, indeed, the prescription of Peter⁸⁸⁷²

⁸⁸⁷² 1 Pet. iii. 1–6.
likewise is plain, checking as he does with the same mouth, because with the same Spirit, as Paul, the glory of garments, and the pride of gold, and the meretricious elaboration of the hair.
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