This reminds me of similar advice I gave my (US) family visiting Bulgaria (my sister was particularly concerned about her shorts, and short skirts, because I had told her that for church she needed to have a skirt past her knee.....per the priest). 

Well we arrived in Pavel Banya to visit my husband's grandmother and the first thing she, his grandmother, did was grab my sisters legs (she was worried that she was cold). At that my sister gave me a look and said I told you so ;).