NEWSTART + 6 (DRESS) Fashion: (Part 1) Fashion: (Part 2) What Does it Consist of?

3 John 2 – “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and BE IN HEALTH, even as thy soul prospereth.”

“…Disease is an effort of nature to free the system from conditions that result from a violation of the laws of health…” {MH 127.1)

 
“…Become more intelligent in regard to the laws of life…” {11MR 187.3}
 
EDUCATE IN REGARD TO THE LAWS OF LIFE:
“…Educate people in regard to the laws of life …” {GCDB, January 30, 1893 par. 2}
 
“…EDUCATE, EDUCATE, EDUCATE…”  {6MR 379.1}
 
“EDUCATE, EDUCATE, EDUCATE....IN THE DRESS...” {TSA 87.2}
 
“No education can be complete that does not teach right principles in regard to dress. Without such teaching, the work of education is too often retarded and perverted…”  {ED 246.1}
 
WHY?
“…Educate people in the laws of life so that they may know how to preserve health…” {MM 259.3)
 
“True religion and the laws of health go hand in hand…” (7T 137.1)
 
“…In violating the laws of health…you misrepresent your Maker…” {KC 20.4}
 
“…It is the duty of EVERY PERSON, for his own sake, and for the sake of humanity, to inform himself in regard to the laws of life and conscientiously to obey them…” (MH 128.1)
 
“We should educate ourselves, not only to live in harmony with the laws of health, but to teach others the better way…” (CG 361.2)
 
“Too little attention is generally given to the preservation of health. It is far better to prevent disease than to know how to treat it when contracted...”  {MH 128.1)
 
FASHION REGARDING:
#1: SPIRITUAL ASPECT:
“As we see the love of FASHION and display among those who profess to believe PRESENT TRUTH, we sadly ask, will the people of God learn nothing from the history of the past? There are few who understand their own hearts. The vain and trifling lovers of fashion may claim to be followers of Christ; but their dress and conversation show what occupies the mind and engages the affections. Their lives betray their friendship for the world, and it claims them as its own.”  {MYP 354.3}

“…The one who is simple and unpretending in her DRESS and in her manners shows that she understands that a true woman is characterized by moral worth. How charming, how interesting, is simplicity in DRESS…” {MYP 353.2}

“How can one that has ever tasted the love of Christ be satisfied with the frivolities of FASHION? My heart is pained to see those who profess to be followers of the meek and lowly Saviour, so eagerly seeking to conform to the world's standard of DRESS. Notwithstanding their profession of godliness, they can hardly be distinguished from the unbeliever…” {MYP 355.1}
 
“…Women permit their souls to be starved and dwarfed by FASHION, and thus they become a curse to society, rather than a blessing.” {MYP 357.2}

“…The life of nine tenths of those who are devotees of fashion is a living lie. Deception, fraud, is their daily practice; for they wish to appear that which they are not.”  {MYP 359.1}
 
“…Upon the point of FASHION, how dare professed Christians follow in the path of the worldling?  (MYP 359.3)

#2: CHARACTER:
“…We judge of a person's character by the style of DRESS worn. A modest, godly woman will DRESS modestly. A refined taste, a cultivated mind, will be revealed in the choice of a simple, appropriate ATTIRE…”  (MYP 353.2)
 
#3: THE LAWS OF LIFE/HEALTH:
“In eating, drinking, and DRESSING, the laws of health should be diligently followed…”  (CE 124.1)
 
“By indulging their inclinations and appetites, men violate the laws of life and health; and if they obey conscience, they must be controlled by principle in their eating and DRESSING, rather than be led by inclination, FASHION, and appetite.”  {HL 28.1}
 
#4: CHILDREN:
“Another great cause of mortality among infants and youth, is the custom of leaving their arms and shoulders naked. This FASHION cannot be too severely censured. It has cost the lives of thousands...”  {HL 147.2}
 
“Mothers who DRESS their children in accordance with FASHION, endanger their health and life. FASHION leaves the limbs of children unclad, save with one covering, or, at most, two…”  (HL 147.3)
 
“Parents who DRESS their children with their extremities naked, or nearly so, are sacrificing the life and health of their children to FASHION. If these parts are not so warm as the body, the circulation is not equalized. . . . The blood is driven to the head, causing headache or nosebleed; or there is a sense of fulness about the chest; producing cough or palpitation of the heart, on account of too much blood in that locality; or the stomach has too much blood, causing indigestion. . . The blood is chilled back from its natural course, and thrown upon the internal organs, breaking up the circulation and producing disease…”  {HL 184.5}

#5: HEALTH:
“Women especially are the victims of various maladies which might be lessened, if not entirely prevented, by right habits of life. Half their sufferings may be attributed to their manner of DRESS, and the insane desire to conform to the FASHIONS of the world.”  {HL 64.4}
“The FASHIONABLE style of woman’s DRESS is one of the greatest causes of all these terrible diseases.” 
{HL 64.2}
 
“Many have become lifelong invalids through their compliance with the demands of FASHION. Displacements and deformities, cancers and other terrible diseases, are among the evils resulting from FASHIONABLE DRESS.”  {HL 123.2}
 
“The course professed Christians generally pursue in following FASHION, irrespective of health and life, brings upon them a train of evils which they charge back upon providence, and place arguments in the mouths of infidels wherewith to assail Christianity.”  {HL 53.1}
 
“More die as the result of following fashion than from all other causes.”  {HL 64.3}
 
“TURN AWAY FROM THE FASHION PLATES, AND STUDY THE HUMAN ORGANISM.” {HL 118.2}
 
#6: EXPENSES/ECONOMY:
“In the professed Christian world enough is expended for jewels and needlessly expensive DRESS to feed all the hungry and to clothe the naked. FASHION and display absorb the means that might comfort the poor and the suffering. They rob the world of the gospel of the Saviour’s love.”  {MYP 351.3}

WHAT IS CONSIDERED FASHIONIONABLE?
WHAT TYPES OF FASHION HINDER A PERFECT CIRCULATION?

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