Chapter 34—Counsel Concerning Dress
In dress, as in all things else, it is our privilege to honor our Cre-
ator. He desires our clothing to be not only neat and healthful, but
appropriate and becoming.
We should seek to make the best of our appearance. In the taber-
nacle service God specified every detail concerning the garments of
those who ministered before Him. Thus we are taught that He has a
preference in regard to the dress of those who serve Him. Very specific
were the directions given in regard to Aaron’s robes, for his dress was
symbolic. So the dress of Christ’s followers should be symbolic. In all
things we are to be representatives of Him. Our appearance in every
respect should be characterized by neatness, modesty, and purity.
By the things of nature [the flowers, the lily] Christ illustrates the
beauty that Heaven values, the modest grace, the simplicity, the purity,
the appropriateness, that would make our attire pleasing to Him
Guiding Principles in Dress
The dress and its arrangement upon the person is generally found
to be the index of the man or the woman.
We judge of a person’s character by the style of dress worn. A
modest, godly woman will dress modestly. A refined taste, a cultivated
mind, will be revealed in the choice of a simple, appropriate attire. The
one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and in her manners
shows that she understands that a true woman is characterized by moral
worth. How charming, how interesting, is simplicity in dress, which
in comeliness can be compared with the flowers of the field!
I beg of our people to walk carefully and circumspectly before
God. Follow the customs in dress so far as they conform to health
principles. Let our sisters dress plainly, as many do, having the dress
of good, durable material, appropriate for this age, and let not the dress
question fill the mind. Our sisters should dress with simplicity. They
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