Women's Religiously Observant Plain Dress
- About Plain Dress
- About Modest Dress
- About Plain Modern
- Reasons Women Give for Going Plain
- Ask Ibbie, questions answered about plain dress and Quaker spirituality.
Quaker Plain Dress
Elizabeth Gurney Fry, Quaker humanitarian (1780-1845)
"I used to think and do now how little dress matters. But I find it almost impossible to keep to the principles of Friends without altering my dress and speech. . . . They appear to me a sort of protector to the principles of Christianity in the present state of the world."
Quaker Testimonies on the Plain Dress Witness
History
- Historical Background of Quaker Women's Plain Dress (with some examples)
- Historical References to Quaker Plain Dress for Those Who Mistakenly Believe Quakers Never Historically Wore Plain Dress
- Photos of Some Plain Dressing Quakers from the Early 20th Century.
Quaker Spirituality and Plain Dress
- My favorite piece on Quaker Plain Dress, from Caroline Stephen's Quaker Strongholds.
- Excerpt on Peculiar Customs of Quakers - Chapter One - Dress from Thomas Clarkson's A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume I, originally published 1804
- Dress and Worldly Compliance Addressed, by Joseph Pike, originally published 1726 (614 KB pdf)
- Plainness of Apparel from Kenneth Morse's The Fundamental Principle of the People Called Quakers—and Some of its Consequences, early 20th century.
- On the Christian witness in manner of dress from A Letter to the Truly Concerned by Kenneth Morse, early 20th century.
- A Warning to all to keep out of the vain Fashions of the World, which lead them below the Serious Life; and not to fashion themselves according to the World. (mid-1600s)(George Fox)
- Photos of Some Plain Dressing Quakers Today.
- Quaker Jane's Plain Dress Testimony and Witness
- Paula's Plain Dress Testimony and Witness
- Alice's Plain Dress Testimony and Witness
- Crossroads Friends Worship Group—Plain Friends Page
- Frances Clare Fischer's Testimony (external website)
- Kimberly Anne Makela's Testimony (external website)
- Quaker Anne's Discussion of Quaker Plain Dress (external website)
- Valerie Goes Plain
- Valerie Goes to Shipshewana
My Testimony and Witness as a Plain Quaker
- Going Plain
- To Cover or Not to Cover
- My Path to Plain Dress
- Evolution of My Plain Dress Attire
- In Defensiveness of Plain Dress
George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends(Quakers)
from A Collection of Many Select and Christian Epistles, Letters, and Testimonies (London 1698)"Friends, keep out of the vain fashions of the world; let not your eyes, minds, and spirits run after every fashion (in attire) of the nations; for that will lead you from the solid life into unity with that spirit that leads to follow the fashions of the nations, after every fashion of apparel that gets up: but mind that which is sober and modest, and keep to your plain fashions, that you may judge the World, . . ."
