Immodest Dress and Delicacy

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 25, 1866

Immodest Dress and Delicacy

“Some few years ago a French dancer appeared in New York, whose style was then considered so immoral that very few church-going people would appear in her presence. Last Sunday I attended a fashionable church, and there saw that three-fourths of the ladies, in entering their pews, in consequence of their style of dress, made an exposure which might even shame the French dancer. It is not only in going into pews, but in going up door steps, getting in and out of street-cars, omnibuses, carriages, ascending stairs, &c., that the morals of the present day are being impaired. Can ladies expose themselves in their present style of dress without impairing their delicacy?”— N. Y. Post.