The society, however, recommended only simplicity and plainness to be attended to on this occasion.

They prescribed no standard, no form, no colour, for the apparel of their members.

They acknowledged the two great objects of decency and comfort, and left their members to clothe themselves consistently with these, as it was agreeable to their convenience or their disposition.
A new aera commenced from this period.

Persons already in the society, continued of course in their ancient dresses: if others had come into it by convincement, who had led gay lives, they laid aside their gaudy garments, and took those that were more plain.

And the children of both, from this time, began to be habited from their youth as their parents were.
But though the Quakers had thus brought apparel under the disciplinary cognizance of the society, yet the dress of individuals was not always alike, nor did it continue always one and the same even with the primitive Quakers.