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Hephzibah
Ministries
Your girls should wear the waists of their dresses perfectly
loose, and they should have a style of dress convenient,
comfortable and modest. In cold weather they should
wear warm flannel or cotton drawers, which can be
placed inside the stockings. Over these should be warm
lined pants, which may be full, gathered into a band, and
neatly button around the ankle, or taper at the bottom
and meet the shoe. Their dress should reach below the
knee. With this style of dress, one light skirt, or at most two, is
all that is necessary, and these should be buttoned to a
waist. The shoes should be thick-soled, and perfectly comfortable. With this style of dress your girls will be no more in
danger in the open air than your boys. And their health
would be much better, were they to live more out of doors,
even in winter, than to be confined to the close air of a
room heated by a stove.
It is a sin in the sight of Heaven for parents to dress their children as they do. The only excuse that they can make is, it is
fashion. They cannot plead modesty to thus expose the
limbs of their children with only one covering drawn tight
over them. They cannot plead that it is healthful, or really
attractive. Because others will continue to follow this health
and life-destroying practice, it is no excuse for those who
style themselves reformers. Because everybody around you
follow a fashion which is injurious to health, it will not make
your sin a whit the less, or be any guarantee for the health
and life of your children.
Ellen G.White
