Yeah. End you would be surprised by some early, early christian clothing (or clothing christians wore - what is not the same - but here is the main problem: there is no christian clothing. Not in scripture, nor as a
for all regions normative teaching) as we will find:
-heavy make up in byzantium and at the rus christians in the middle ages. Covering the face with caky make up and khol/red colour instead of going “bare faced” is interpreted with
modest covering love this
)
-underwear. Yes, underwear! Poorer people in rural areas in central europe in the middle ages wore sometimes only the “bruche”, in medieval german a noun for a kind of underpants looking diaper like. Bodies were bodies. No one offended.
-breastfeeding in church. Yepp. There are sources. I always laugh a little if I see those dekolletee offended posts. In some good old´ times, boobs were just boobs.
That said, the whole strict modesty in dress view is a warm up of the 19th century, and was even then only possible to live for a small upper class of
biedermeier housewives. This was not the rule for domestic life the centuries before where women were hard workers, nor was it the norm for their working class sisters. The ordinary fabric worker girl worked next to hot machines often in a
bralette, or say, my grandma´s version of a crop top. They still went to holy mass on sunday and sure, they had been very irritated if someone told them they were immodest.
