First Presidency, Correspondence, 1912-1916

File — Box: 2, Folder: 14

Identifier: I

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

First Presidency, letter to the General Boards of the YLMIA, Primary, and Relief Society, 22 September 1916, says: "We feel that there exists a pressing need of improvement and reform among our young people, specifically in the matter of dress and in their social customs and practices. Our women are prone to follow the demoralizing fashions of the world; and some of the daughters of Zion appear to vie with one another in exhibitions of immodesty and of actual indecency in their attire.... Many of our youth of both sexes are fast approaching a state of depravity in dancing, and in their feverish pursuit of frivolous and dissipating pleasures."

Dates

1912-1916

Conditions Governing Access

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