The Green aprons also were worn by the females, but they are now wholly out of use.

But these changes could never have taken place, had there been any fixed standard for the Quaker dress.
But though the Quakers have no particular model for their clothing, yet they are not indifferent to dress where it may be morally injurious.
They have discarded all superfluities and ornaments, because they may be hurtful to the mind.

They have set their faces also against all unreasonable changes of forms for the same reasons.

They have allowed other reasons to weigh with them in the latter case.

They have received from, their ancestors a plain suit of apparel, which has in some little degree followed the improvements of the world, and they see no good reason why they should change it; at least they see in the fashions of the world none but a censurable reason for a change.