Women's Religiously Observant Plain Dress
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."
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- Historical References to Quaker Plain Dress for Those Who Mistakenly Believe Quakers Never Historically Wore Plain Dress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.
Modern Plain Quakers
- Frances Clare Fischer's Testimony (external website)
- Kimberly Anne Makela's Testimony (external website)
- Quaker Anne's Discussion of Quaker Plain Dress (external website)
- Alice's Plain Dress Testimony and Witness
- Valerie Goes Plain
- Valerie Goes to Shipshewana
- Photos of Some Plain Dressing Quakers Today.
- Crossroads Friends Worship Group Plain Friends' Page (external website)
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, . . ."
