On the Apparel of Women, Book II

Book II

• On the Apparel of Women II.1 — Chapter II.—Perfect Modesty Will Abstain from Whatever Tends to Sin, as Well as from Sin Itself. Difference Between Trust and Presumption. If Secure Ourselves, We Must Not Put Temptation in the Way of Others. We Must…vatican.va
• On the Apparel of Women II.2 — Grant that Beauty Be Not to Be Feared: Still It is to Be Shunned as Unnecessary and Vainglorious. Chapter III.—Grant that Beauty Be Not to Be Feared: Still It is to Be Shunned as Unnecessary and Vainglorious. Let it…vatican.va
• On the Apparel of Women II.3 — Concerning the Plea of “Pleasing the Husband.”. As if I were speaking to Gentiles, addressing you with a Gentile precept, and (one which is) common to all, (I would say,) “You are bound to please your husbands only.”…vatican.va
• On the Apparel of Women II.4 — Some Refinements in Dress and Personal Appearance Lawful, Some Unlawful. Pigments Come Under the Latter Head. Chapter V.—Some Refinements in Dress and Personal Appearance Lawful, Some Unlawful. Pigments Come Under…vatican.va
• On the Apparel of Women II.5 — Of Dyeing the Hair. I see some (women) turn (the colour of) their hair with saffron. They are ashamed even of their own nation, (ashamed) that their procreation did not assign them to Germany and to Gaul: thus, as it…vatican.va
• On the Apparel of Women II.6 — Of Elaborate Dressing of the Hair in Other Ways, and Its Bearing Upon Salvation. Chapter VII.—Of Elaborate Dressing of the Hair in Other Ways, and Its Bearing Upon Salvation. What service, again, does all the labour…vatican.va
• On the Apparel of Women II.7 — Men Not Excluded from These Remarks on Personal Adornment. Of course, now, I, a man, as being envious of women, am banishing them quite from their own (domains). Are there, in our case too, some things which, in…vatican.va
• On the Apparel of Women II.8 — Excess in Dress, as Well as in Personal Culture, to Be Shunned. Arguments Drawn from I Cor. VII. Chapter IX.—Excess in Dress, as Well as in Personal Culture, to Be Shunned. Arguments Drawn from I Cor. VII. Wherefore,…vatican.va
• On the Apparel of Women II.9 — Tertullian Refers Again to the Question of the Origin of All These Ornaments and Embellishments. Chapter X.—Tertullian Refers Again to the Question of the Origin of All These Ornaments and Embellishments. It was God,…vatican.va
• On the Apparel of Women II.10 — Chapter XI.—Christian Women, Further, Have Not the Same Causes for Appearing in Public, and Hence for Dressing in Fine Array as Gentiles. On the Contrary, Their Appearance Should Always Distinguish Them from Such.…vatican.va
• On the Apparel of Women II.11 — Such Outward Adornments Meretricious, and Therefore Unsuitable to Modest Women. Chapter XII.—Such Outward Adornments Meretricious, and Therefore Unsuitable to Modest Women. Let us only wish that we may be no cause…vatican.va
• On the Apparel of Women II.12 — Chapter XIII.—It is Not Enough that God Know Us to Be Chaste: We Must Seem So Before Men. Especially in These Times of Persecution We Must Inure Our Bodies to the Hardships Which They May Not Improbably Be Called to…vatican.va