  In the early years of the movement, Quakers also dressed plainly and without ostentation. This practice was an outcome of focusing on the “Inner-Man” rather than outer appearances (Fell 1660f, 20). In one of her last “Epistle to Friends” (1698), Fell sternly warns against the dangers of leading young Friends into “the observation of outward things”. The outward form does not make a true Christian, but rather the inner person: “It’s the Spirit,” she says, “that gives Life” (Fell 1710, 535).