Again and again, the warning echoed that a woman should not ‘let herself go’. If she was to fulfil her God-given role as a homemaker, a woman must use physical attractiveness to encourage her husband to stay within the circle of home, family and fidelity. Paying attention to her own appearance ensured not only that her husband would not stray into immorality, it also raised the spirits and gladdened the hearts of all the men she came into contact with.
