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Jorgfe
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Username: Jorgfe
Post Number: 775
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 11:12 am: |     |
quote:We cannot, if we would, conceal the fact that women have feet and limbs that were made for use. But in regard to the exposure, this is on the other side of the question. We have traveled extensively the past twenty-five years, and have been eye-witnesses to many indecent exposures of the limbs. But the most common exposure is seen upon the streets in light snow, or wet and mud. Both hands are required to elevate the dress, that it may clear the wet and filth. It is a common thing to see the dress raised one-half of a yard, exposing an almost unclad ankle to the sight of gentlemen, but no one seems to blush at this immodest exposure. No one's sensitive modesty seems shocked for the reason that this is customary. It is fashion, and for this reason it is endured. No outcry of immodesty is heard, although it is so in the fullest sense.
The Health Reformer, May 1, 1872, paragraph 18
Gilbert Jorgensen
It has been 162 Years, 10 Months, and 22 Days since October 22, 1844 |
River
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Username: River
Post Number: 1447
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 12:37 pm: | |
Who wears short shorts, she wears short shorts bum ba dum ba dum.
Her eyes would have popped out of her dead head if she had of been a real prophet and saw into the 60's and 70's to the land of mini skirts and high heels.
Where have all the people gone, now its slacks and tight fitting jeans. I vote we bring back the mini-skirts so us fellows can get our hormones er whatever it is we got, working again.
River |
Jorgfe
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Username: Jorgfe
Post Number: 781
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 1:59 pm: | |
quote:The foregoing-described dress we believe to be worthy of the name of THE REFORM SHORT DRESS. It is being adopted at the Western Health Reform Institute, and by some of the sisters at Battle Creek, and other places, where the matter is properly set before them. In wide contrast with this modest dress is the so-called "American Costume," resembling very nearly the dress worn by men. It consists of a dress resembling a coat, vest, and pants. This dress reaches about half way from the hip to the knee. This dress I have opposed from what has been shown me, which is in harmony with the word of God; while the other I have recommended as modest, comfortable, convenient, and healthful.
Testimony for the Church (1867), No. 11, Dress
http://www.earlysda.com/testimony/testimony-11.html
Gilbert Jorgensen
It has been 162 Years, 10 Months, and 22 Days since October 22, 1844 |
Colleentinker
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Username: Colleentinker
Post Number: 6776
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 6:37 pm: | |
And, I might add, the Reveiw and Herald sold the only approved pattern for Reform Dress. The Review offered the patterns for $1.00 apiece, and no other pattern was approved for Adventist women. In those days, that was a high price for a pattern.
Then, abruptly, she discontinued wearing Reformed dresses and stopped selling them. No official announcement was made...Adventists just began realizing that Ellen was backing away from the requirement. She had gone to California, so the Adventists in the East took a whle to realize that she had quit wearing it, and she didn't happen to tell them.
D. M. Canright tells of this embarrassing period in Adventist history.
Colleen |
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