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,112    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 Peter113    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.

CAPUT XX .

De habitu vero duntaxat foeminarum, varietas observationis effecit , post sanctissimum Apostolum, nos vel maxime nullius loci homines, impudenter retractare: nisi quod non impudenter, si secundum Apostolum retractemus. De modestia 1184A quidem cultus et ornatus, aperta praescriptio est etiam Petri, cohibentis eodem ore, quia eodem et spiritu, quo Paulus, et vestium gloriam, et auri superbiam, et crinium lenonem operositatem .