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After spending so many years in the wasteful cause of worldly entertainment, the Shorters are the perfect team to prepare this exhaustive study on the subject of dress reform. By doing so, though, they expose themselves to the usual attacks of liberal critics who delight in labeling all reformation work as "legalistic" and "fanatical." It is for this reason that so few, even among those who hold convictions about modest dress, are willing to put their feelings into print. Rick and Gwen have proven beyond question in their massive compilation that Ellen G. White did indeed believe that obedience to fashion "is doing more than any other power to separate our people from God." 4T 647. If her statement was true a century ago, no one can doubt the urgent need for Seventh-day Adventists to restudy the inspired principles which she poured on to so many pages of her testimonies to the church. Shining through her concerned counsels over hoops and flowery hats are hundreds of references to twentieth century living. Her examples of immodesty and pride may appear outdated and prudish to those who have been steeped in the vulgar lifestyle of a decadent society, but the principles are even more relevant for us just because we do live in such a flesh-oriented and thoroughly polluted generation. I beg that you do not make the mistake of rejecting out of hand her impassioned appeals for reform just because the culture has moved us from bustles to minis to midis. The real problem lies deep within the self-nature of Adam's fallen children, and the prophetess addresses that problem in words that should strike conviction to sincere hearts everywhere, regardless of the day, year, or century in which they lived.
