from one extreme to the other

After Constantine’s flowery wardrobe, the style of Julian the Apostate (two Emperors later) must have come as something of a surprise. Gibbon:

“The splendid and effeminate dress of the Asiatics, the curls and the paint, the collars and bracelets, which had appeared so ridiculous in the person of Constantine, were consistently rejected by his philosophic successor. But with the fopperies, Julian affected to renounce the decencies, of dress; and seemed to value himself for his neglect of the laws of cleanliness.”