Plain Dress Quotes

Most people think the Shakers are in Pennsylvania. They tend to confuse them with the Amish.

I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

You will not see me dressed in plain, modest outfits.

There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!

Publicly I'm a very modest dresser, by Hollywood's standards.

'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters.

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.

The wholesome is definitely intentional and drilled into me. I mean, we weren't allowed to pierce our ears growing up. We didn't wear makeup. We couldn't have layers in our hair, perms, or color, or manicures. My dad didn't think it was ladylike. My dad just felt like his daughters should be wholesome.

Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts - sewing, quilting, cooking, baking - as well as seeing them live out their tradition of faith in such a unique way.

His dress was of plain cloth, and he rode on horseback to the Capitol without a single guard or even servant in his train, dismounted without assistance, and hitched the bridle of his horse to the palisades.

I'm not Amish, but I grew up in that same area of Pennsylvania and became very attracted to the inherent strictness and uniformity of that community.

Growing up in a Mennonite background, there's not much media.

I wanted to be Amish when I was a kid. You just wear black and white - what could be better? One less thing to worry about.

My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land.

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

We grew up Amish, but my parents left the religion when I was a child. The Amish have lots of rules, and my dad thought many people in the faith were hypocritical because they'd tell others not to do something and then do it themselves.

I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish. It's going to be bonnets and butter churns.

The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to, like, 'Little House on the Prairie' days or something.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.