Compassion directs her to deny encouragement to the perennial playboys who refuse to distinguish between easy women and honest women. Unless properly used, fashion exercises a tyranny with its every whim. Taste means the ability to select that is most becoming to one's dignity as a person, and to adapt it to pecularities of age, occasion, mood, etc. The obligation to develop taste arises from the role of woman to establish what is harmonious and beautiful in human situations. Traditionally there is elegance in even the most simply dressed Filipina.
Authentic taste is, at the same time, the best guarantee of modesty.
Poor taste makes victims not merely of the light-headed, but even of those who sincerely desire to be faithful to modesty but fail in courage. The uneasiness of abbreviatedly dressed Filipinas when sitting in public places comes from the right instinct. But taste, unlike information, is not had for the asking. Each person must be formed in it. And in this matter, parents bear the principal responsibility.