Length of Dress.
553. The length of the fashionable dress is objectionable for several reasons:--
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1. It is extravagant and unnecessary to have a dress of such length that it will sweep the sidewalk and street. {HL 126.1}
2. A dress thus long gathers dew from the grass and mud from the streets, and is therefore uncleanly. {HL 126.2}
3. In its bedraggled condition it comes in contact with the sensitive ankles, which are not sufficiently protected, quickly chilling them, and thus endangering health and life. This is one of the greatest causes of catarrh and scrofulous swellings. {HL 126.3}
4. The unnecessary length is an additional weight upon the hips and bowels. {HL 126.4}
5. It hinders the walking, and is also often in other people's way.-- T., V. I, p. 459. {HL 126.5}
If women would wear their dresses so as to clear the filth of the street an inch or two, their dresses would be modest, and they could be kept clean much more easily, and would wear longer.-- Ibid., p. 458. {HL 126.6}

Too Much Clothing.
554. You have worn too great an amount of clothing, and have debilitated the skin by so doing. You have not given your body a chance to breathe. The pores of the skin, or little mouths through which the body breathes, have become closed, and the system has been filled with impurities.-- T., V. III, p. 74. {HL 126.7}
555. I advise invalid sisters who have accustomed themselves to too great an amount of clothing, to lay it off gradually.-- T., V. II, p. 533. {HL 126.8}
556. Disease of every type is brought upon the body through the unhealthful, fashionable style of dress; and the fact should be made prominent that a reform must take place before treatment will effect a cure.-- T., V. IV, p. 582. {HL 126.9}

Reform, continual reform, must be kept before the people, and by our example we must enforce our teaching. True religion and the laws of health go hand in hand. . . By precept and example they must hold their perfect standard high above Satan’s false standard, which, if followed, will lead to misery, degradation, disease, and death for both body and soul. Let those who have obtained a knowledge of how to eat and drink and dress so as to preserve health, impart this knowledge to others. Let the poor have the gospel of health preached unto them from a practical point of view, that they may know how to care properly for the body, which is the temple of the Holy Spirit. {CH 480.2}

Continual reform means building on the light given.
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And why do so many Church employees insist (to their own harm) that God's prophets were wrong and abandoned their inspired counsel?

This makes of no effect God's instruction, calling them false prophets.
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Honesty & transparency from those on the payroll would go many miles to restoring confidence among church members.
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