Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

This was food for talk. The result was that the
objectionable feature, the pants, was left off. The
burden of advocating the reform dress was
removed because that which was given as a
blessing was turned into a curse. There were some
things which made the reform dress a decided
blessing. With it the ridiculous hoops which were
then the fashion could not possibly be worn. The
long dress skirts trailing on the ground and
sweeping up the filth of the streets, could not be
patronized. But the more sensible style of dress
now being adopted does not embrace the
objectionable features. The fashionable part may be
discarded, and should be by all who will read the
Word of God. The time spent in advocating the
dress reform should be devoted to the study of the
Word of God.
The dress of our people should be made most
simple. The skirt and sack I have mentioned may
be used. -- not that just that pattern and nothing
else should be established, but a simple style as
was represented in that dress. Some have supposed
that the very pattern given was the pattern that all
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