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Post subject: Ladies, Today Is Your Lucky Day.
 Posted: Jul 01, 2008 - 10:35 PM
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Polygamists offer prairie fashions for sale
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Apparently, all the publicity surrounding the ongoing investigation into alleged underage marriage among members of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) on a Texas ranch has created some serious demand for prairie dresses.
So much so that the FLDS has launched an online store where members of the general public can purchase the dresses, long underwear, and other ranch-wear "as seen on TV."
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the Web site FLDSdress.com, was initially created to give Texas authorities a place to purchase the clothing, so children in state custody could maintain their traditional clothing.
The children have been reunited with their families, but the Web site now serves another purpose. The FLDS hopes to raise money through sale of the clothing to help support families from the Yearning For Zion ranch who now live in rental homes in cities like San Antonio and Austin. Some families have returned to the ranch, but many have not.
The Web site sells a wide array of clothing for children, from the "Teen Princess Dress" for $60.65 to the "Baby Dress With Bloomers" for $48.07. Both items, along with most others for girls, are available in a rainbow of pastels from pink to yellow or lavender. Items for boys include denim overalls for $65.93 and cotton-polyester shirts for $23.69.
The Web site said the clothes are made to meet the "FLDS standards for modesty and neatness." And all of the clothes are hand-made "with joy and care" by the FLDS women.
The legal troubles for parents from the YFZ ranch haven’t ended. A grand jury met last month in Eldorado, Texas, to consider possible criminal indictments in the case. It will meet again later this month.
In the meantime, FLDS women are sewing and selling their way to financial independence.
And who knows? It’s fashion week in Paris. We may soon hear rumblings from the catwalks that "pastel is the new black." After all of the strange twists and turns of the FLDS drama, it wouldn’t surprise me at all. |
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Posted: Jul 01, 2008 - 10:54 PM
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Posted: Jul 02, 2008 - 01:21 AM
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It just so happens that I like prairie dresses. They are feminine and lady like. Of course, I am not FLDS or fundamentalist of any kind. I just happen to enjoy being a woman and a lot of the unisex fashions of today just don't cut it for me.
If more women would start being helpmeets to their mates rather than competitors, men would start being men, children would get raised properly instead of being left with some stranger or worse, left to raise themselves, then together we could kick this planet in the ass and get it out of the ditch it has been in for many years and put it back on the right path.
There, I said it. I am a woman and proud of it. And, I don't need to compete with any man to rule the world.  |
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Let's do it as a memorial to Joyce Mason
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Posted: Jul 02, 2008 - 01:25 AM
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I could sew 3 dresses for that price  |
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Posted: Jul 02, 2008 - 01:56 AM
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| littlestar wrote: | | I could sew 3 dresses for that price |
I know what everybody's getting for Christmas.  You know what I bet would go good with those? War surplus army boots.  |
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Posted: Jul 02, 2008 - 06:44 AM
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Yeah, just what every woman wants, a dress that says "It's okay my husband is a pedophile."
They can claim all they want that they're not. We know they are otherwise they never would've followed Warren Jeffs.
I like to look like a woman too, but I prefer the more sexy cuts of the 1940s and 50s. |
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Posted: Jul 02, 2008 - 02:41 PM
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Don't like dresses no matter what the cut and style. I'm more of a shorts/t-shirt or jeans/t-shirt kind of person. And prairie dresses? Not unless I want to be laughed out of town. I'm not Laura Ingalls Wilder.   |
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Posted: Jul 03, 2008 - 06:34 AM
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Hmmm, just might have to look into that.....
I mean nothing says sexy like a pair of those long underwear........ Oh yeah, momma has a hot new pair of Long John's......... |
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Posted: Jul 03, 2008 - 07:37 PM
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| UH HUH..Black ones...oh and some Tinkerbell ones...HOT !!!! |
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Posted: Jul 03, 2008 - 08:45 PM
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I find those dresses highly unflattering.
I was taught to leave the house dressed appropriately.
I cannot imagine wearing such a garment at my next executive meeting.
business suits or, at the very least, business casual is de rigueur
minimum jewelry. professional makeup. sensible heels.
That is what the Sisters of Notre Dame Secretarial College taught me.
| SMB wrote: | It just so happens that I like prairie dresses. They are feminine and lady like. Of course, I am not FLDS or fundamentalist of any kind. I just happen to enjoy being a woman and a lot of the unisex fashions of today just don't cut it for me.
If more women would start being helpmeets to their mates rather than competitors, men would start being men, children would get raised properly instead of being left with some stranger or worse, left to raise themselves, then together we could kick this planet in the ass and get it out of the ditch it has been in for many years and put it back on the right path.
There, I said it. I am a woman and proud of it. And, I don't need to compete with any man to rule the world. |
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Posted: Jul 03, 2008 - 09:29 PM
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| DEB...it's just a GIGGLE....remember those ? |
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Posted: Jul 03, 2008 - 10:20 PM
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| Debb wrote: | I find those dresses highly unflattering.
I was taught to leave the house dressed appropriately.
I cannot imagine wearing such a garment at my next executive meeting.
business suits or, at the very least, business casual is de rigueur
minimum jewelry. professional makeup. sensible heels.
That is what the Sisters of Notre Dame Secretarial College taught me.
| SMB wrote: | It just so happens that I like prairie dresses. They are feminine and lady like. Of course, I am not FLDS or fundamentalist of any kind. I just happen to enjoy being a woman and a lot of the unisex fashions of today just don't cut it for me.
If more women would start being helpmeets to their mates rather than competitors, men would start being men, children would get raised properly instead of being left with some stranger or worse, left to raise themselves, then together we could kick this planet in the ass and get it out of the ditch it has been in for many years and put it back on the right path.
There, I said it. I am a woman and proud of it. And, I don't need to compete with any man to rule the world. |
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I don't do executive meetings. My office is in my home. Any meetings I attend are conference calls conducted over the phone and through the web. And I was once a nun.
But, I am not here to argue with anyone. I just like wearing skirts instead of pants. To each, his/her own. |
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Let's do it as a memorial to Joyce Mason
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Posted: Jul 04, 2008 - 05:18 PM
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Is this a joke? LOL
And like LS said, I can make several of those at that price. |
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Posted: Jul 04, 2008 - 05:37 PM
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Giggle away then.
| littlestar wrote: | | DEB...it's just a GIGGLE....remember those ? |
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