MODESTY SHOULD BE TAUGHT SINCE CHILDHOOD. THOSE WHO DID NOT ACQUIRE THIS VIRTUE THEN, WILL HARDLY PRACTICE IT AS TEENAGERS OR ADULTS

TO CHRISTIAN PARENTS

“The good of our soul is more important than the good of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of our neighbor to our bodily comforts… If a certain kind of dress constitutes a grave and proximate occasion of sin, and endangers the salvation of your soul and others, it is your duty to give it up… O Christian mothers, if only you knew the future distress, peril and ill-restrained shame that you prepare for your sons and daughters by imprudently accustoming them to live barely clothed, and permitting them to lose the sense of modesty, you would be ashamed of yourselves, and of the harm done to the little ones entrusted to you by Heaven to be reared in a Christian dignity and culture."

Pius XII to the Groups of Young Catholic Women of Italy