dress

both paul and peter's mention of platting or braiding the hair does not refer to the simple braids many young mennonite, amish or other girls have, but to first century's elaborate and startling coiffures.

since women do not generally look upon men as men look to them, christian women may not think modesty is all that important. because of this they should pay attention to what their father or husband, if married, or the church says about dress. if they don't, they can get caught up in the immodest life style of the world.

that women adorn themselves, kai tas yunaikas en katastol kosmio. the apostle seems to refer here to different parts of the grecian and roman dress. the stola seems to have been originally very simple. it was a long piece of cloth, doubled in the middle, and sewed up both sides, leaving room only for the arms; at the top, a piece was cut out, or a slit made, through which the head passed. it hung down to the feet, both before and behind, and was girded with the zona round the body , just under the breasts. it as sometimes made with, sometimes without, sleeves; and, that it might sit the better, it was gathered on each shoulder with a band or buckle. some of the greek women wore them open on each side, from the bottom up above the knees, so as to discover a part of the thigh. these were termed phainomarides, showers (discoverers) of the thigh; but it was, in general, only young girls or immodest women who wore them thus.
the katastola seems to have been the same as the pallium or mantle,wedding cakes, which, being made nearly in the form of the stola, hung down to the waist, both in back and front, was gathered on the shoulder with a band or buckle, had a hole or slit at the top for the head to pass through, and hung loosely over the stola,cheap bridal gowns, without being confined by the zona or girdle. . . . a more modest and becoming dress than the grecian was never invented; it was, in great measure, revived in england about the year 1805, and in it, simplicity, decency, and elegance were united; but it soon gave place to another mode, in which frippery and nonsense once more prevailed. it was too rational to last; and too much like religions simplicity to be suffered in a land of shadows, and a world of painted outsides.

with sobriety, meta swphrosuvas. moderation would lead them to avoid all unnecessary expense. they might follow the custom or costume of the country as to dress itself, for nothing was ever more becoming than the grecian stola, catastola, and zona; but they must not imitate the extravagance of those who, through impurity or little of mind, decked themselves merely to attract the eye of admiration, or set in lying action the tongue of flattery. woman has been invidiously defined: an animal fond of dress. how long will they permit themselves to be thus degraded?

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