These colours, as I observed before, were the colours worn by country people; and were not expensive, because they were not dyed.

To this gown was added a green apron.

Green aprons had been long worn in England, yet, at the time I allude to, they were out of fashion, so as to be ridiculed by the gay.

But old fashioned people still retained them.

Thus an idea of gravity was connected with them; and therefore religious and steady women adopted them, as the grave and sober garments of ancient times.
It may now be observed that from these religious persons, habited in this manner, in opposition to the fashions of the world, the primitive Quakers generally sprung.