This isn’t MODESTY?!

[Archivist]

Probably because skirt length was not an issue at that time and culture. I bet even the prostitutes wore long skirts. What women did to show that they were a prostitute was to uncover their heads and wear fancy hairstyles and makeup. Which is why uncovering the head was viewed as shameful. A prostitute in our culture would not think about her head or hair like that, she would wear a low top and a micro-mini to show off as much of her body as possible. Whatever respectable women did, prostitutes made sure through all the ages not to follow. In the 1890s showing your ankles was scandalous, because respectable women didn't show them, no one thinks that now. Times change and what is respectable changes, now they have barely anything left to shed.

Actually women were not wearing skirts in those times. Tunics yes, skirts no.

 

[coffee4u]

Actually women were not wearing skirts in those times. Tunics yes, skirts no.

When I said 'skirt' I didn't literally mean a skirt that goes from the waist down, I just mean the hem of their garment. Skirt/dress/tunic, whatever.

 

[Archivist]

When I said 'skirt' I didn't literally mean a skirt that goes from the waist down, I just mean the hem of their garment. Skirt/dress/tunic, whatever.

Sorry. I went by your words. Women wore long tunics. Men also wore tunics only their’s were shorter, about knee length.

 

[coffee4u]

Sorry. I went by your words. Women wore long tunics. Men also wore tunics only their’s were shorter, about knee length.

I'm pretty sure the term 'skirts' use to mean both skirts and dresses and yes I know women wore theirs long and men short - I wasn't thinking of the proper words at the time I guess.

A quick Google says the male tunic could be long as well -for the rich.