But many of such women, as are ministers and elders, and indeed many others of age and gravity of manners, still retain them.

The green apron also has been nearly, if not wholly laid aside.

There was here and there an ancient woman, who used it within the last ten years, but I am told that the last of these died lately.

No other reasons can be given, than those which have been assigned, why Quaker-women should have been found in the use of a colour, which is so unlike any other which they now use in their dress.

Upon the whole, if the females were still to retain the use of the black hood and the green apron, and the men were to discard the stays and loops for their hats, we should find that persons of both sexes in the society, but particularly such as are antiquated, or as may be deemed old fashioned in it, would approach very near to the first or primitive Quakers in their appearance, both as to the sort and to the shape, and to the colour of their clothes.