Dress
103
Our dress may be of good quality, made up with plainness and sim-
plicity, for durability rather than for display.—
The Review and Herald,
November 21, 1878
.
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532. There is no need to make the dress question the main point of
your religion. There is something richer to speak of. Talk of Christ;
and when the heart is converted, everything that is out of harmony
with the word of God will drop off.—
The Signs of the Times, July 1,
1889
.
533. There is no use in telling you that you must not wear this or
that, for if the love of these vain things is in your heart, your laying off
your adornments will only be like cutting the foliage off a tree.—
The
Review and Herald, May 10, 1892
.
534. “Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil”.... Be not
hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. Fashion is deteriorating the
intellect and eating out the spirituality of our people.—
Testimonies
for the Church 4:647
.
535. As soon as any have a desire to imitate the fashions of the
world that they do not immediately subdue, just so soon God ceases
to acknowledge them as his children.—
Testimonies for the Church
1:137
.
536. Those who have had the light upon the subjects of eating and
dressing with simplicity, in obedience to physical and moral laws, and
who turn from the light which points out their duty, will shun duty in
other things. If they blunt their consciences to avoid the cross which
they will have to take up to be in harmony with natural law, they will, in
order to shun reproach, violate the ten commandments.—
Testimonies
for the Church 3:51
.
Influence of Dress upon the Body
537. Physical loveliness consists in symmetry—the harmonious
proportion of parts.—
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 94
.
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538. Dress reform ... includes every article of dress upon the
person. It lifts the weights from the hips by suspending the skirts
from the shoulders. It removes the tight corsets, which compress the
lungs, the stomach, and other internal organs, and induce curvature
of the spine and an almost countless train of diseases. Dress reform