p. 6 | Worldly Dress

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Sep 5, 1912

Worldly Dress

Modern styles of dress are calling forth much comment to-day in the secular as well as in the religious press. Various church societies and clergymen in both Protestant and Catholic churches have spoken plainly against the evil influences attending the manner of dress employed by many women at the present time. Narrow skirts, peek-a-boo waists, short sleeves, and low necks are coming in for severe condemnation. And it must be admitted that the condemnation for the most part is just. True modesty and refinement will be manifested in the apparel quite as much as in the speech and general deportment. A modest, retiring nature, such as every true woman should possess, will seek to avoid that attire which makes her at once the cynosure of curious eyes and the subject of slighting remark.

There is an amazing lack of simplicity in the world to-day. The woman or the girl who seeks to avoid the extremes of modern fashion is counted old-fashioned, and her ideas considered far from being up to date. The determining principles in the question of proper dress are conversion and education. With an education as to what constitutes true womanly modesty and reserve, and consecration of heart to the service of God, young women will see little to appeal to them in the vagaries of modern dress. Let our sisters be all that is implied in the term of true Christian women.