What do hands have to do with modesty? Are men turned on by hands now too? Get a grip (pun intended).
Say what if a guy doesn't care about hands but is all turned on by latex? That could be the reason behind the gloves....
Lol! Funny!
Seriously though, I cannot even imagine what it must be like to have to live over there being a woman. It sounds like a nightmarish existence to me. You can't leave the house unless you're dressed up like a darn ghost! Always get a kick out of seeing them at the beach . . . the guys are dressed in swim trunks, and the women in all kinds of robes and coverings.

It annoys the crap out of me.
Well, the thing is -- the more you cover up on one, the more you bottle up in the other....
Here's the way we used to roll, not that long ago:
----- and here's our version of Religious Police, actually
measuring how far above the knee....
Okay, but that's pretty much meaningless to me because it was long before my time. I've always been a "free" woman, free to go where I want, free to dress as I choose, etc. Also, the fact that my parents were pretty much hands off, so I've always just kind of done what I wanted (except for when I was very small child). I cannot fathom what life must be like for women in some of those countries.
That's not another country -- that's
here.
It's a diferent time, is all. Just an illustration of how cultural mores decide what the local 'moral' standards are going to be. That guy with the tape measure isn't working on behalf of any religion -- he's working on behalf of the local community standards, as they were understood and commonly accepted at the time.
Again -- a product of culture -- not religion. Again, culture dictates what the standards are ---
and changes with the times. Religion .......... well when's the last time you can remember a revision to the Bible, Qur'an or Torah? Exactly.
Those don't even look like bathing suits to me in the second picture. They look like dresses!

In fact, I probably have a couple shorter than that!
I know, right? I was actually searching for pics of my grandmother from around those days but don't seem to have 'em handy, so I settled for this.