While none were compelled to adopt the reform dress, our people could and should have appreciated its advantages and accepted it as a blessing. The evil results of an opposite course may now be seen. At the sanitarium, physicians and helpers have greatly departed from the Lord’s instructions in regard to dress. Simplicity is now rare. Instead of neat, unadorned apparel, which the pen of Inspiration has prescribed, almost every style of fashionable dress may be seen. Here, as elsewhere, the very ones who complained of the labor required to prepare the reform dress have now gone to great extremes in needless adornment. All this involves so much time and labor that many are obliged to hire their work done at twice what it would have cost had the garments been made in simplicity as becomes women professing godliness. The making of these fashionable dresses frequently costs more than the dress itself. And double the value of the material is often expended for the trimmings. Here pride and vanity are displayed, and a great lack of true principle is seen. If they would be content with plain, simple clothing, many who are dependent on their weekly earnings could do the most of their own sewing. But this is now impossible, and the dressmaker’s bill takes from their small wages a considerable sum. {4T 639.1}

(639) Selvom ingen var tvunget til at antage reformklæder, kunne og burde vort folk have påskønnet dets fordele og antaget dem, som en velsignelse. De onde følger af den modsatte kurs kan ses nu. På sanatoriet er lægerne og sygehjælperne afveget stærkt fra Herrens belæring med hensyn til klæder. Nu er enkelhed et sjældent syn. I stedet for ordentlige, ubesmykkede klæder, som Inspirationens pen har foreskrevet, kan næsten enhver moderne klædestil ses. Her, såvel som andre steder, er de som er dem, som beklagede sig over at skulle indføre reformklæderne, nu gået til store yderligheder i unødige besmykkelser. Alt dette bruger så meget tid og arbejde, at mange er nød til at få dobbelt så meget løn for deres arbejde, end hvis deres klæder var gjort i enkelhed, sådan som de sømmer sig for en gudfrygtig kvinde. Fabrikation af disse moderigtige klæder, koster ofte mere end klæderne i sig selv. Og den dobbelte værdi har ofte det der er brugt på klipninger. Her vises stolthed og tomhed og en stor mangel på sande principper ses. Hvis de ville gå med til enkle, simple klæder, kunne mange, som er afhængige af deres ugentlige løn, selv gøre meget af syarbejdet. Men dette er nu umuligt og skrædderens honorar er anseelig i deres små lønninger.