Editing Modesty (section)

===Gender differences===
[[File:Femmes-Amish.jpg|thumb|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.]]
Men and women are subject to different standards of modesty in dress. While both men and women, in Western culture, are generally expected to keep their genitals covered at all times, women are also expected to keep their breasts covered. Some body parts are normally more covered by men than women—e.g., the [[midriff]] and the upper part of the back.

In 1992 New York State's highest court accepted [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]] arguments and struck down the provision in New York's ''Exposure of the Person'' statute that made it illegal for women to bare their chests where men were permitted to do so.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/nyctap/I92_0160.htm|title=Santorelli & Schloss v. State of New York|date=7 July 1992|publisher=Cornell University Law School}}</ref>