Most Mennonite women today dress like their neighbours. A dress code survives in the conservative, Old Order and Holdeman churches, where women wear long dresses, a prayer covering over uncut hair, and no jewellery or make-up. Women in the Old Colony churches of Latin America wear dark dresses and kerchiefs, and Russian-German congregations in Germany keep head coverings. The Mennonites’ own Third Way website, which speaks from the tradition of Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada, puts the change…

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