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Questions about the Church’s standard of modesty have arisen in recent years. This article seeks to be an exposition of everything we should know about modesty and the reasons for practicing it as well as a response to certain criticisms that have arisen about it.
The scriptures include injunctions for modesty in dress that are more direct and some that are more indirect.
Alma in the Book of Mormon sees "costly apparel" very negatively–always framing it as a manifestation of pride.[1] In contrast, he looks positively on those that dress and groom themselves in a way that is "neat and comely."[2] The author of Timothy directs women to "adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided [meaning "braided"] hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works."[3] A revelation given to Joseph Smith in 1831 known as "The Law" commands members to "let all [their] garments be plain, and their beauty the work of [their] own hands[.]"[4]
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