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Thanks for writing this - it's really interesting.

I like the broader idea of modesty being more like lack of ostentation. In British Quakerism, "plain dress" was adopted to steer people away from ostentatious dress, by encouraging wearing of the most neutral clothes of the time. It was largely abandoned for the same reasons: the clothes that had been neutral/unostentatious when plain dress was introduced had become peculiar and had started to be ostentatious themselves by the time it was abandoned.