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Plain Dress and Social Prejudice

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 14, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 38.

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Plain Dress and Social Prejudice

A PLAINLY-DRESSED little lady from San Francisco recently appeared at a California watering-place and was snubbed by all the ladies. She sent home for her best dresses and all her diamonds. After her trunks arrived she went to breakfast in a magnificent morning dress made by Worth, and profusely ornamented with diamonds, and her two little children were dressed in the height of fashion. Everybody seemed anxious to make amends for past slights, but she was extremely distant to one and all. She cut them in this way for a week, then packed up her nine Saratoga trunks and sent them home, and resumed her plain and comfortable vacation clothes.