Do we all agree that 'modest' means to be unassuming, unostentatious,to downplay one's merits, skills, charms?
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The head is already covered by hair. The body is already covered by skin. These are usually dull & plain in shades of brown, beige, yellow.
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How is covering these in bright colours and bling as 'modest fashion' does unassuming, unostentation & downplaying?https://twitter.com/IFDC_/status/836612175552630784 …
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I don't think there's anything wrong with dramatic, showy & eye-catching fashion. I was a goth, ffs, but I can't see anything modest abt it.
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If you really wanted to be unassuming, unostentatious & downplay your attractiveness, wear jeans, a tee-shirt & put your hair in a ponytail
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Here's me getting married. Look how modest I am. Hair covered. Body covered wrist to ankle. I was going for 'Queen of the Damned'pic.twitter.com/IYEjb5i10y
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Awesome :) Were you married in church? I'd love to know what the vicar thought of the dress if you were
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Of course not. I was married on Friday the 13th, much occult, vampiric & Satanic symbolism.
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its logic is the sexual selection

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I'm talking about the logic of claiming to be modest & downplay attractiveness whilst framing it in vibrantly-coloured bling
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yes, i know
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thing is the veil is not "modest, it's very sexually signalizing : but to attract mates of a certain clan
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The Persian nobility of the Sassanid era (my peeps) supposedly wore tunics and trousers slit in a dozen places but were so
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lavishly covered in layers upon layers of silks that, no matter how windy, no part of their naked body beneath was ever seen. It
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definitely wasn't modest. (Also, sumptuary laws stopped common people from dressing that way).
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it's my understanding that your use of "modest" is uncommon now; now it means "covering body parts seen as sexual in any way"
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