In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with decency and propriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
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Clement Of Alexandria
AD 215
Resigning, therefore, these baubles to the wicked master of cunning himself, let us not take part in this meretricious adornment, nor commit idolatry through a specious pretext. Most admirably, therefore, the blessed Peter.
The Instructor orders them to go forth "in becoming apparel, and adorn themselves with shamefacedness and sobriety"