Formality is cold and heartless. The clothes are decieving. Diana, the chaste virgin, is caught between the dueling forces of Mars of Arms and Venus of desire. The only adornment she has hides her sexual organs. In order to lust, one has to be teased, denied to see only certain things.
Love is partially blind.
Clothing is that which can hide or conceal dangerous objects. It is much like the armor that the cousins wore that changed them into beats. The cousins fight each other like the hounds for they didn't recognize thier kinship. The Knyght gives a lengthy description of Palamon's knights. Everich after his opinion.