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Women's Religiously Observant Plain Dress

About

  • Plain Dress
  • Modest Dress
  • Plain Modern

Advice

  • Purchasing Custom-made Plain and Modest Dress Online
  • Fabrics for Home-sewn Plain and Modest Dresses
  • Foundation Garments for Plain and Modest Dress

Thoughts, Questions

  • Ask Ibbie: questions answered about plain dress and Quaker spirituality
  • Reasons Women Give for Going Plain
  • Plain Dress as Visual Koan
  • Plain Weird: In Defense of Quaker Plain Dress

Quaker Plain Dress

Plain dress among Quakers

  • Testimonies from plain dressing Friends
  • 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  • Historical References to Quaker Plain Dress for Those Who Mistakenly Believe Quakers Never Historically Wore Plain Dress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.

My Life as a Plain Quaker

  • Going Plain
  • To Cover or Not to Cover
  • My Path to Plain Dress
  • Evolution of My Plain Dress Attire
  • My Response to Things People Have Said to Me Opposing 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, . . ."
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Epistle 104
1655

"Writing, Printing, Speaking"

AND none quench the Spirit's Movings in the least Degree, nor none go beyond. And feed not upon that which Dies of it self, but on that which cometh from above: Know the Son of Man's Flesh, which is your Bread, and his Blood, which is your Drink: which who eats and drinks of, hungers no more, nor thirsts no more, but hath the Endless Life. Nor none Write, Print nor Speak (for God) but as ye are moved of the Lord God; for that reacheth to that of God in others, and is Effectual. Nor none stop Writing ...

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Quaker Jane's
Recommended Reading


Why Do They Dress That Way?

The guide to the practice of plain dress in the United States.


The Quaker: A Study in Costume

Amelia Gummere's classic study of the history of Quaker plain dress, first published around 1900.

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