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In 1930, by mandate of Pope Pious XI, the Sacred Congregation of the Council published a manifesto ordering Catholics to start a campaign against the 'immodest dress' of women. The manifesto advised the following... 
"The parish priest should command that feminine garb be based on modesty, and womanly ornament be a defence of virtue. Let them likewise admonish parents to cause their daughters to cease wearing indecorous dress."
"Let parents never permit their daughters to don immodest garb."
"Superioresses and teachers must not receive in their colleges and schools immodestly dressed girls, and should not even make an exception in the case of mothers of pupils."
"Nuns, in compliance with the Letter dated August 23, 1928, by the Sacred Congregation of Religious, must not receive in their colleges, schools, oratories or recreation grounds, or, if once admitted, tolerate girls who are not dressed with Christian modesty"
"Maidens and women dressed immodestly are to be debarred from Holy Communion ... further, if the offence be extreme, they may even be forbidden to enter the Church."
In 1928, Cardinal Pompili defined indecent dress...
"we recall that a dress cannot be called decent which is cut deeper than two fingers' breadth under the pit of the throat, which does not cover the arms at least to the elbows... and scarcely reaches beyond the knees."
"we recall that a dress cannot be called decent which is cut deeper than two fingers' breadth under the pit of the throat, which does not cover the arms at least to the elbows... and scarcely reaches beyond the knees."
