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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 210: What is the Modest Apparel Prescribed by the Apostle? (R. 148)
A usage that is decent and befitting its proper object, having regard to time, place, person and necessity, for reason prescribes different covering in winter and summer, nor will the workman and the man of leisure have the same clothes, or the servant and he who is waited upon, or the soldier and the civilian, or a man and a woman.1
Notes
- Cf. F. 22 (3688).