Dress depends on the state of the soul

Dress in your life depends on the state of the pocket; here, on the state of the soul. Therefore, it is not strange to us see a spirit clothed in the plainest garb, while even then the old body is being arrayed in the finest of satin. On the other hand, I have seen spirits here so gorgeously clothed that they looked like white, glittering forms. I have no words to describe the texture or its manufacture, for it comes just as naturally as the spirit body and, as I said, the increase in beauty of body is in proportion to the increase of soul-worth. The manner and fashion of dressing as in earth, we leave behind, except when we wish to appear to our earthly friends in a natural way – then, from the elements we can extract from the clothing of those around, we are taught to clothe ourselves for the time being.

Experiences of Samuel Bowles