Immodest Dresses
We do not think it in accordance with our faith to dress in the
American costume, to wear hoops, or to go to an extreme in wearing
long dresses which sweep the sidewalks and streets. If women would
wear their dresses so as to clear the filth of the streets an inch or two,
their dresses would be modest, and they could be kept clean much more
easily and would wear longer. Such a dress would be in accordance
with our faith.—
Testimonies for the Church 1:424
(1864).
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