In the early days of the revolution, women were flogged, jailed and fined for what was considered immodest dress.

The conservative daily Kayhan also warned that "women's immodest dress is not the only vice."

In many cases where society did not allow nudity or immodest dress, nudity was accepted in art.

The missionaries generally had a rigid view of right and wrong, condemning practices such as polygamy, immodest dress and lascivious dancing.

Also, the government's "Islamic Endowment Ministry" has deployed Virtue Committee members to warn citizens of the dangers of immodest dress, card playing, and dating.

Islamists in other countries have been accused of attacking or threatening to attack the faces of women in an effort to intimidate them from wearing of makeup or allegedly immodest dress.

Basic etiquette is covered when reservations are taken, including the prohibition of shorts or halter tops or other "immodest" dress, cameras or tape recorders, smoking and loud behavior.

Rachel Wohlgelernter, a 19-year-old freshman, said such things as immodest dress, crude language and the presence of condoms violated what she said was the spirit of Jewish law.

Certain rules on modesty amongst men and women are still self-enforced in response to the Qur'an's injunction against immodest dress.

Your immodest dress and your behaviour shocked me out of a year's growth.