Dress
107
5. It hinders the walking, and is also often in other people’s way.—
Testimonies for the Church 1:459
.
If women would wear their dresses so as to clear the filth of the
street an inch or two, their dresses would be modest, and they could be
kept clean much more easily, and would wear longer.—
Testimonies
for the Church 1:458
.
Too Much Clothing
554. You have worn too great an amount of clothing, and have
debilitated the skin by so doing. You have not given your body a
chance to breathe. The pores of the skin, or little mouths through
which the body breathes, have become closed, and the system has been
filled with impurities.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:74
.
555. I advise invalid sisters who have accustomed themselves to
too great an amount of clothing, to lay it off gradually.—
Testimonies
for the Church 2:533
.
556. Disease of every type is brought upon the body through the
unhealthful, fashionable style of dress; and the fact should be made
prominent that a reform must take place before treatment will effect a
cure.—
Testimonies for the Church 4:582
.
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