Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

moral health; and he exults when he sees professed
Christians eagerly accepting the fashions that he
has invented. The amount of physical suffering
created by unnatural and unhealthful dress cannot
be estimated. Many have become lifelong invalids
through their compliance with the demands of
fashion....
Among these pernicious fashions were the
large hoops, which frequently caused indecent
exposure of the person. In contrast with this was
presented a neat, modest, becoming dress, which
would dispense with the hoops and the trailing
skirts, and provide for the proper clothing of the
limbs. But dress reform comprised more than
shortening the dress and clothing the limbs. It
included every article of dress upon the person. It
lifted the weights from the hips by suspending the
skirts from the shoulders. It removed the tight
corsets, which compress the lungs, the stomach,
and other internal organs, and induce curvature of
the spine and an almost countless train of diseases.
Dress reform proper provided for the protection
and development of every part of the body.[For the
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