plain dress
Clothing without ornament
Plain dress is the simple, modest clothing worn by members of certain religious groups, particularly Anabaptist communities like the Amish, Mennonites, and Quakers.
The style typically avoids bright colors, patterns, and ornamentation, favoring solid dark fabrics and traditional cuts.
Plain dress signals separation from worldly fashion and commitment to humility: The women in plain dress stood out at the county fair.
- QuakerismReligious Society of Friends
- shunningDeliberately avoiding someone
- simplicityLack of complexity
- AmishTraditional simple-living sect
- prayer capReligious skullcap for worship
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- Amish Countrybuggies, buggy rides, horse and buggy, quilts, quilt shops
- asceticismabstinence, celibacy, ascetic, austerities, chastity
- colonial clothingbonnet, bodice, doublet, breeches, petticoat
- Pennsylvania Dutch CountryAmish, Amish country, Lancaster, Lancaster County, covered bridges
- plain dressbonnet, prayer cap, head covering, white cap, cape
- Puritan virtuespiety, frugality, self-denial, modesty, sobriety
plain dresssequined dress
Garment with sewn-on reflective discs
beaded dress · embroidered dress · fancy dress · ball gown · evening gown
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