Tight leather pants or a shapeless, all-covering burqa. Clothing can emphasize the body, but also conceal it. Many examples of this can be found over the centuries. At the same time, the idea of what is sexy or not is shifting.
Just showing a woman's ankle in a lace-up boot was considered very erotic in the prudish nineteenth century. Let alone a leg! So when the bicycle came into fashion around 1900, decent women had a problem. Wearing pants was not done :that was clothing for men. Until a few decades ago, women had never even worn underpants for that reason. The cyclists finally solved their problem by attaching lead butterfly figures. This kept the skirts hanging down neatly.
At that time, the Netherlands had a lot less trouble with other typically female body parts:'as long as the meat didn't waver'. Through the corset, women emphasized their waist, hips, breasts and buttocks. With a 'tournure' you got an even more emphatic behind. Breasts were also filled. Young, unmarried girls were allowed to show a cleavage, as were bare arms and shoulders, but only at a ball at night. A century before that, the neckline (also during the day) even fell at nipple height. You wore a neckerchief over it, but it went off in hot weather or when you were working.
Men's clothing was less bothered by what could or could not be done. Although this one could also be very daring for our standards. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, men packed their genitals in a showy and padded pubic pouch. They also used it as a wallet and as a storage place for handkerchiefs and other indispensable items. The bigger the pouch was, the more power the man radiated. Sexy calves were also important:the French Henry III (1551-1589) introduced the high heel for the man. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, men camouflaged too narrow calves with special pads.