To understand this trend, we must consider objectively the Rod wave rapper Nostalgia signature shirt but in fact I love this ‘M’-word in clothing. (It’s probably not what you’re used to thinking.) Modesty is not achieved by long clothing, although long clothing *can* indeed be modest; but so can short clothing be fully modest. Modesty, when seen in the context of certain NT epistles, is easier to achieve in relatively short clothing than in long, for there is actually more room for immodesty in longer clothing. (We will soon see where Mother Eve enters into the picture.) In 1 Tim 2: 9-10, Paul says: “Women … should dress modestly and quietly, and not be decked out in fancy hair styles, gold ornaments, pearls or costly clothing; rather, as women who profess to be religious, their adornment should be good deeds.” More literally, according to the Greek text, it says they should “dress modestly and quietly to be adorned, not with…, but with good deeds,” thus showing the intent of the modest and quiet clothing, which is to avoid “loud” or garishly elaborate clothing styles.
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