An Old Order Amish family in traditional plain dress
Plain dress is a practice among some religious groups, primarily some Christian churches in which people dress in clothes of traditional modest design, sturdy fabric, and conservative cut. It is intended to show acceptance of traditional gender roles, modesty, and readiness to work and serve, and to preserve communal identity and separation from the immodest, ever-changing fashions of the world. For men, this often takes the form of trousers secured by suspenders, while for women, plain dress usually takes the form of a cape dress along with a headcovering (normatively a kapp or an opaque hanging veil).[1][2]
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^"Q: So what about the funny clothes? Do you dress like the Amish?". Stillwater Monthly Meeting of Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends. Archived from the original on 9 August 2021. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
Plaindress is a practice among some religious groups, primarily some Christian churches in which people dress in clothes of traditional modest design...
Lutherans also wear plaindress. Historically, members of the Moravian Church wore plaindress. Early Methodists wore plaindress, with clergy condemning...
part of Anabaptist Christianity. The Amish are known for simple living, plaindress, Christian pacifism, and slowness to adopt many conveniences of modern...
with rejection of modern culture and modern assimilation. It teaches plaindress. It is one of several Schwarzenau Brethren groups that trace their roots...
used to have a strong tradition of simplicity in dress, more properly called "plaindress". Plaindress generally meant wearing clothes that were very similar...
Dunkard Brethren (who adhere to traditional theological beliefs and wear plaindress but use modern conveniences), and the Church of the Brethren (who are...
square dancing. Prairie dresses are often worn by women who attend Christian churches that emphasize the practice of plaindress (as with the Bruderhof...
Men and women are expected to dress in a "simple uniform way". In practice their Plaindress is similar to the dress of other Schmiedeleut Hutterites...
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theological distinctives, wear plaindress and use modern conveniences) to mainline Mennonites (those who are indistinguishable in dress and appearance from the...
use thee as an ordinary pronoun, refuse to participate in war, wear plaindress, refuse to swear oaths, oppose slavery, and practice teetotalism. Some...
doctrine, such as the belief in nonresistance and the observance of plaindress (including the headcovering), while making judicious use of modern technology...
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enjoin on all who fear God plaindress." Peter Cartwright, a Methodist revivalist, stated that in addition to wearing plaindress, the early Methodists distinguished...
schools, revival meetings, and worldly amusements. They promoted plaindress, plain living, and church discipline. The progressives in the church focused...
A cape dress describes a woman's dress which combines features of the cape and the dress. Either a cape-like garment is attached to the dress, pinned or...
church is plainness; that of the world is the fashion of the day. Anabaptist Christian denominations that observe the wearing of plaindress, such as the...
Absonderung. Nonconformity is primarily expressed through the practices of plaindress and simple living. Among the verses of the New Testament used to support...
Faith and practicing Anabaptist distinctives, such as nonresistance, plaindress, separation from the state, and believer's baptism. They form a loose...
(triple, in allusion to the Trinity) immersion, foot washing, adherence to plaindress, the wearing of a headcovering by women and teetotalism was the scriptural...
Christian Fellowship seeks to emulate early Christianity and practices plaindress, believer's baptism, "feet washing, the devotional head covering, the...
which continues to emphasize the wearing of a headcovering by women, plaindress, temperance, footwashing, and pacifism. Calvary Holiness Church is considered...
faith after a person experiences the New Birth. Early Methodists wore plaindress, with Methodist clergy condemning "high headdresses, ruffles, laces,...
dress, they formed the Old German Baptist Brethren (OGBB) in 1881. In 1882 the Progressives, who stressed outreach evangelism and objected to plain,...
England Plainclothes (TV series), a 1990s New Zealand crime drama series Plaindress, a religious practice of wearing clothes of traditional, modest design...
Brethren) have plaindress prescriptions designed to achieve modesty and create a sense of church identity, as Petrovich writes: "Their dress standard is...
enjoin on all who fear God plaindress". Peter Cartwright, a Methodist revivalist, stated that in addition to wearing plaindress, the early Methodists distinguished...
retained some old traditions, e. g. they wear the most traditional form of plaindress among all Mennonites. Concerns that led to the formation of the new group...
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