Modesty, sometimes known as demureness, is a mode of dress and deportment which intends to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others. The word modesty comes from the Latin word modestus whi
Recreation on a California beach in the first decade of the 20th century, depicting people in modest dress
Orthodox pilgrim in the Laure of Kyiv-Perchesk. Pilgrims have to wear modest clothes and women and girls must cover their hair when entering a church or monastery.
Modesty in dress is a relative cultural concept, even in the West, as seen above in the plain dress of Amish women on an American beach in 2007.
Modesty in dress for Buddhist monks visiting the Hindu-Buddhist temple complex Angkor Wat, Cambodia
The breasts are two prominences located on the upper ventral region of the torso in humans and other primates. Both sexes develop breasts from the same embryological tissues. The relative size and dev
Modesty
…so is sometimes intended as an insult. In public, Western standards of decency expect all people to cover their genitalia, and women to cover their breasts. Since the 1980s it has become more common for young women in Western societies to wear clothing that bared the midriff, "short shorts", backless tops…
Morphology of female human breasts, with the areola, nipple, intermammary cleft and inframammary fold
Male human breasts with defined pectoral muscles
Mountain gorilla breastfeeding an infant
Breast development in puberty is measured with the five-stage Tanner scale