A Warning to all to keep out of the vain Fashions of the World, which lead them below the Serious Life; and not to fashion themselves according to the World

FRIENDS, Keep out of the vain Fashions of the World, let not your Eyes, and Minds, and Spirits run after every Fashion (in Apparel) of the Nations; for that will lead you from the Solid Life into unity with that Spirit that leads to follow the Fashions of the Nations, after every Fashion of Apparel that gets up: But mind that which is sober and modest, and keep to your plain Fashions, that you may judge the World, whose Minds and Eyes are in what they shall put on, and what they shall eat: And Friends that see the World so often alter their Fashions, if you follow them, and run into them, in that ye cannot judge the World, but the World will rather judge you. Therefore keep all in the Modesty, and Plainness, and Fervency, and Sincerity, and be Circumspect; for they that follow those things that the World's Spirit invents daily, cannot be Solid; and many Fashions might be instanced, both of Hats, Caps, and Cloaths of Men and Women that daily are invented, which they that run into them are near unto the World's Spirit, and their Eyes gazing after them, when they should be upon the Lord, from whom they should receive Judgment.

George Fox