Many a style of dress that was inappropriate and even ridiculous has been generally adopted because it was the 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. {4T 635.1}

Mange klædestile, som var malplacerede og endog latterlige er blevet almindeligt antaget fordi den er moderigtig. Blandt disse ødelæggende moder var store fiskebensskørter (hoop), som ofte fik personen til at se farlig ud. Som modsætning blev der givet ordentlige, anstændige og sømmelige klæder, undvære fiskebensskørter og slæbeskørter og sørge for ordentlige klæder til arme og ben. Men klædereformen omfattede mere end kortere klæder og klæder til arme og ben. Den indbefatter enhver klædningsartikel på kroppen. Den løfter byrderne fra hofterne ved at ophænge skørterne fra skuldrene. Den fjernede stramme korsetter, som presser lungerne, maven og andre indre organer sammen og medfører krumning af rygraden og en næsten utallig række sygdomme. Klædereformen er kommet for at enhver legemsdel kan beskyttes og udvikle sig ordentligt.