Of Modesty in the Outward Apparel (Two Articles)
Summa Theologica — Saint Thomas Aquinas
We must now consider modesty as connected with the outward apparel, and under this head there are two points of inquiry:

(1) Whether there can be virtue and vice in connection with outward apparel?

(2) Whether women sin mortally by excessive adornment?

whether there is a sin
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