Plain and Modest Clothes

Modesty describes a humble appearance that does not attact attention to wearer by their clothing, its color or style. Modest clothing should not be elaborate or costly, but simple in appearance, rather than sophisticated or luxurious.

The common understanding of modesty for both genders is to have a decent cut that is not revealing and covers the upper body up to the neck, covering the shoulders by having at least short sleeves and the bottoms reaching to the ankles. Modesty also includes to not emphasize the body shape, which requires the tops and bottoms to have a reasonable ease.

Plain clothes are basic and simple in style, with no decoration or adornment in any way. The whole outfit consists of clothes with only solid and muted colors or a very slight pattern.

Dressing plain modest simplifies the wardrobe and rejecting fads and fashion comes with some advantages.

Everyone can dress Plain Modest

Despite Plain Modest clothing is mostly worn by religious people, it is just an expression of values and not a religious symbol. It can be worn by anyone, regardless of religious affiliation, because it is only worn for modesty, which is always appreciated.

How it looks like

For men this means wearing pants and shirt while women are dressed with skirts, either as dress or a blouse and skirt.

Usual plain modest outfits for men and women

Why does women's clothing look so different?

When comparing modest with non-modest clothing, there is noticeable difference for women's garment. While men's modest clothing just looks like usual clothing, the women's modest clothing does look completely different from what we are used to. This is because the men's fashion has not changed much, over the last centuries. But the women's fashion changed drastically, especially in the past decades and, finally got completely off the rails.

Ladies most common dresses

The four most common plain modest dresses are described here. For details proceed to the respective description.

Different types of plain modest dresses for women

Classic dress

This is the original form of a dress. It consists of a bodice with sleeves and an attached full skirt.

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Cape dress

The cape dress resembles the classic dress with an additional layer of fabric covering the bodice: The cape.

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Jumper dress

A jumper dress or just jumper is a sleeveless dress intended to be worn over a top or blouse. In British English it is known as pinafore dress.

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Slip-on dress

This dress is slipped on over the head and has no closures at all. (No buttons, no zippers etc.)

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Blouse and skirt

This alternative to the dresses provides the same coverage but consists of separate top and bottom pieces.

Gentlemen clothing

The typical man's modest clothing consists of shirt and pants. Depending on the area suspenders are worn. In plain traditional outfits a broadfall pants is worn.


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