To commend the gospel. Wives and Husbands. What it doesn't mean - inequality, or oppression. Illustration of Aesop's fable of the wind and the sun trying to get the cloak off the man. Power can't force submission.
Love can earn submission.
Purpose of all is to commend the gospel. Other issue - outward adornment. Inner beauty, not outward glitz. Again flies in the face of contemporary wisdom. Not that husbands haven't heard the word, but that they are disobedient to it.