[WT Sharpe]

.....I see ladies' silk dresses, if those deserve to be called dresses which can neither cover their body or their shame; when wearing which, they can scarcely with a good conscience, swear that they are not naked. These are imported at a vast expense from nations unknown even to trade, in order that our matrons may show as much of their persons in public as they do to their lovers in private.
..........— Lucius Annaeus Seneca (circa 4 BCE – 65 CE), Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist. On Benefits, Book VII, Section IX (circa 63 CE).