President Young advised sisters to sew clothes for themselves and their families. He said, “I call upon my sisters to … create your own fashions, and make your clothing to please yourselves independent of outside influences.” Sister Eliza R. Snow reported that he encouraged sisters to establish “fashions that would be becoming—such as would be worthy the patronage of sensible, refined and intelligent women who stand, as we in reality do, at the head of the world.”Candy emphasized that we don't need to be so simple as to be dowdy, but that we are to be becoming and lovely. Even if we don't now sew our own clothing, as they did then, we can still chose outfits that are nice and modest, and make us look truly beautiful.
Diane told us how the ladies then grew their own silkworms so they would have nice cloth for making their dresses. Evidently, they even would carry around the silk cocoons under their skirts and in their corsets to keep them (the cocoons, not the ladies) warm. There was a time that the cocoons started hatching during Sunday meetings... Yikes!
Diane shared her worries that we aren't prepared enough for what lies ahead. How are our sewing skills? How is our food storage? How is our spiritual strength? If we do the things we ought to, and "delight in doing right," Brigham Young taught that we will be "firm and immovable like the bases of those everlasting hills."
See Luke 6:47-49 (and sing The Wise Man song) for the scripture about building your house on the rock in preparation of the storms coming.
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