Polygamous Sect Comes Out With Clothing Line
You’ve been here while I thought out loud about polygamy. Twice.
Now you get to watch while I laugh hysterically and wonder if that sect had a PR person or marketing guy (it wouldn’t be a lady PR person) make that call that got all 400+ kids dragged off the Mormon Ranch in Texas.
Why would I think they would do something so…nefarious?
Because they have a clothing line now.
You can buy it on the Internet. You too can make your kids look like they came right off of the prairie and into your home.
Seriously. I am so not making this up. For parents who want to dress their children like…um…Mormon kids. Here’s a quote from Yahoo News. You can read the full article here.
"We don’t know what to expect on demand but we have a flood of interest," Maggie Jessop, a member of the sect, told the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper.
At the website, www.fldsdress.com, the women propose clothing for children and teenagers that "meets the FLDS standards for modesty and neatness" and assert that "each piece is made with joy and care."
Among the items for sale is a "Princess" dress with long sleeves and wide pleats available in eight different colors, while the site’s founders are hoping to soon add recipes and songs.
Chuck those Disney princesses out the window, there’s a new princess in town complete with a princess dress. She’s more commonly known as the princess of the kitchen. Later to become princess of child rearing.
I’m against words-on-the-butt clothing. I’m against making children look like prostitots.
But at the same time, there’s no need to make them look like the flying nun, either.
As much as I hate to say it, part of me wants this to be thinks this is the greatest marketing coup of the 21st century. Get national TV coverage for your lifestyle, get all those kids on camera wearing all that backwater clothing, and viola! I mean, if it didn’t go down that way…doesn’t it seem like the timing was heaven sent? It’s all very…odd…to say the least.
I wonder how many hits the website has gotten? Who is the webmaster that did this? Do Mormons have computers and do they use Internet access?
Shows you I know all of jack squat about the Mormon culture. I mean, I get they’re not Amish and they use electricity…but the clothes kinda look Amish so I get confused.
Would any of you dress your children/teens in this stuff? Would your kids let you, or would they stage a full-on hunger strike?
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Just a hunger strike? With my daughter i would have to sleep with one eye open haha. i don’t think i could get her to switch from her disney princesses. i do have to agree with you, what an amazing PR move! hhhmmm
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OMG! That feeds right into my curiosity about the FLDS. I have read 2 autobiographies from women who left and I am waiting for a new one to come in the mail. I want to order a dress for Halloween!
You’ve read two autobiographies? WOW! I’ve always wanted to read one but I’m afraid if you leave you’re all bitter and it’s going to be a one-sided account. I mean, I’m sure it’s pretty kinda awful, but I also know what my exes say about ME and it’s all lies, I tell you…LIES!
After you get the third one, would you be willing to recommend one to start with? I have a morbid fascination with the Mormon polygamy groups. How they survive and whatnot.
Hell with the horror stories the Amish have to offer (as shown to me by 20/20 - always fair and unbiased right *laugh*) the Mormons have got to have some good stuff.
I always wondered what someone with my innate personality would have turned out like in an environment like that. Would I be a perfectionist polygamist wife? Would I have escaped? It’s weird to think about so I don’t linger on it long
Um. I refuse to click on that site, darling. But this is nuts. Aren’t they supposed to be living ian anti-tech existence? What are they doing with internet?
Dress my kids like that (I can only imagine). Um, no.
On the idea of polygamy… well, I wouldn’t mind having a gang of wives to help me whoop my Hubby into shape! Dude!
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I totally understand if you don’t want to visit. Just visit a little house on the prairie fan page and you’ll get the jist LOL
Polygamy is so awesome in theory (especially if the #2 wife does housework) but in practice…I’d think I’d kick her ass in the first week.
Wow. There’s an entrepreneurial spirit for them.
There’s something romantic about the prairie look, the same way there’s a romance about civil-war-era gowns. I assume that people in other countries have their own outfits that evoke that sense of ancestry and whatnot.
I’ve thought that the look could work IF everyone did it. Heck, I’d be glad to wear a nun’s outfit/old order Mennonite dress (since I’m a new order Mennonite in jeans…) just for the sake of not needing to have a variety of clothes, follow styles, etc. As a plus, those dresses weren’t designed with size 0s in mind.
But I’d never buy from them. If I wanted those dresses, I’d go Mennonite. If.
Well , it does say something for that old pioneering, can-do attitude. The dresses do suggest a Little House on the Prairie nostalgia, albeit the shoulders are a bit over the top. They need to be worn with daintier shoes, however, than the group members favor. I don’t think they would get far launching the hairdos, though. Sewing is big in those communities, so they probably do nice work. In a way you want to support the independence of those women, but in another, run the other way from anything having to do with their lifestyle.
Do they include instructions for the hairdo, too? (Snort. This is unbelievable.)
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I too have read a couple of memoirs. My favorite so far is “What Peace There May Be”, by Susanna Barlow. Her story and experience of leaving the sect of FLDS is amazing. I’m not too interested in learning a lot about the polygamist groups, but I find that this particular memoir gave polygamy a human face.