Woman's Dress | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 10, 1874

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 43, No. 9.

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Woman's Dress.

How should a woman “professing godliness,” dress? How adorn herself?

With “shamefacedness,” i. e., with no intent to draw the eye. 1 Tim. 2:9.

With “sobriety,” i. e., with nothing conspicuous. 1 Tim. 2:9.

Not with “braided hair;” not with “plaiting of hair,” i. e., elaborate arranging of the hair. 1 Tim. 2:9; 1 Pet. 3:3.

Not with “pearls.” 1 Tim. 2:9.

Not with expensive clothing. 1 Tim. 2:9.

Not with clothing (as an adornment). 1 Pet. 3:3.

Observe, there are three points as to clothing the body: Let it be modest, let it be inexpensive, let it be unobtrusive.

There are two points as to the sort of decoration to be avoided: No jewelry, no fanciful dressing of the hair. And there are two points to be observed as to the adorning: “A meek and quiet spirit,” “good works.”

Surely a woman professing godliness should be careful in this matter, which the Holy Ghost has not considered unimportant; surely she should clothe herself in all “modesty,” “shamefacedness,” and “sobriety,” while she adorns herself with a “meek and quiet spirit,” and with “good works.”

Now if she be so adorned, she will not be anxious to attract the gaze of admiration by heaping jewelry upon her person, or decorating it with handsome clothing, nor will she be much busied in the way she arranges her hair. If given to good works, she will have neither time nor money for the decorating of her body.

The above is merely a summing up of Paul's and Peter's thoughts in the matter, as contained in 1 Tim. 2:9, and 1 Pet. 3:3; and as it has made these thoughts very clear to my own mind, I now write them for others who may be exercised on the subject, and honestly anxious to walk in simple obedience to the word of God.—The London Christian.