“What Paul is urging here he calls modesty, which in this place is not so much directed at décolletage only as it is against every form of ostentatious display. All the things mentioned were the sorts of things that ancient women of the Roman glitterati did — braiding jewels into their hair and sprinkling gold dust on it. Think of a flamboyant woman ramped up for an appearance in the court of Louis XIV at Versailles. The apostle is not talking about having a red rubber band for your ponytail” (Why Ministers Must Be Men, p. 15).
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