General counsel on Clothing

From Monachos Patristic Quotations Index

St Cyril of Jerusalem (4th cent.)

• 'But let thine apparel be plain, not for adornment, but for necessary covering: not to minister to thy vanity, but to keep thee warm in winter, and to hide the unseemliness of the body: lest under the pretence of hiding the unseemliness, thou fallest under another kind of unseemliness by thy extravagant dress.' (Catechetical orations, 4.)