FASHION FOLLY | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 17, 1879

FASHION FOLLY.

The New York Tribune speaks thus, than which we can say nothing better or more pointed:—

“ ‘Style,’ that most vulgar of words and things, has done as much to corrupt the women of America as liquor has. Not only is it the cause of financial downfall, but modesty, honesty, decency, are sacrificed to it. Fashion now publishes even the rules for ‘first communion dresses,’ and sets forth the pipings and coiffures in which an innocent girl may properly approach her God. There is nothing so holy that it is not made subservient to it. It is not the wealthy mother alone who vitiates her child’s mind by this worship of folly, but the mechanic’s wife, the poor seamstress whose aim is to ‘push her daughter on in society,’ to give her stylish dresses instead of a modest heart, a clean mind, and a God-fearing soul. The moral training which such mothers neglect is supplied by hot-pressed sensational juvenile literature, and the reports of foul scandals in the daily newspapers.”