Scary stuff....websites for "modest christian clothing"

[Windy]

Has the Taliban arrived on our shores?

http://www.thekingsdaughters.com/ladiesveils.html
http://www.wholesomewear.com/page-3.html
http://www.hannahlise.com/

[Richardo]

1. Are they forcing you to wear it?

Then: No.

[Windy]

4. No they aren't currently... but they would like to.

Are you saying that there is no theocratic agenda that's permeating our culture at present?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

21. Well, the ones pushing a theocratic agenda

tend not to be the ones who dress modestly. Amish and Mennonite are pacifists, and I don't know that they even vote in elections. The 700 Club crowd is made up of a different demographic, and they don't tend to wear this kind of fashion.

[Hoof Hearted]

56. Yeah, this is much to boring for the 700 club crowd and the fundevangelists

They're more into the "Dynasty" look. Lots of hairspray. Expensive. They're not shy aobut making a show of wealth. Lots of jewelry, etc.

[Warren DeMontague]

44. That'll happen soon enough. Meanwhile, Bill Nye the science guy gets booed when he says the moon

reflects the sun's light:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1611568

Yeah, by all means, let's not criticize these reactionary pinhead fucks, let's be happy that they're waging a wholesale war to turn our socity into a fucked-up, dark ages theocracy. :eyes:

[Bitwit1234]

2. Where's modest clothing for men

are only the women supposed to cover up....I'd think they would want the men to also.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

28. Amish and Mennonite men

I've seen wear suspenders (no belts) and jeans and long shirts. The Amish wear solid colors while the Mennonites sometimes wear plaids, but subdued. Old Order Amish men also wear hats-straw for summer, black felt for winter. I think the reason they don't have pages for men at these websites is because it is easier to obtain modest garments for men. After all, in our society it is usually the women who fashion requires to dress provocatively.

[Vinca]

3. The dresses for little girls are kind of cute in a Pollyanna/Anne of

Green Gables way, but the women's wear is truly weird. Like Amish in cheery colors.

[Windy]

6. The little girl's stuff is cute, but the bathing suits....

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

22. Looked good to a woman

with many many figure flaws. Only I'd wear a body suit down to my ankles to hide my varicose veins!

[Liberal Veteran]

5. Modest? That woman is brazenly exposing her forearms and ankles!

Has she no shame?

[sam sarrha]

35. stone the whore...!!!!

[CanonRay]

7. What page are the burqas on?

[cutlassmama]

9. ha ha ha! eom

[DemGa]

16. Sorry, all that's left are veils

[Liberal Veteran]

19. If you sew enough veils together, you can make your own burqa

:D

[sam sarrha]

37. does this Burka make my butt look big..??

[undeterred]

8. The bathing suits are weird

but the rest of it is not that bad.

I don't have kids, but when I see how sexualized some of the girls clothing is in stores I can see why people would want an alternative. Its hardly the taliban.

[dropkickpa]

48. Yep

I have a 6 year old girl, and let me tell you, some of the stuff they have for girls her age is pretty damn sexualized (nothing like what I wore, which was just hideous, it being the late 70's and early 80's). I am very careful when buying clothes for her. We'll have more than enough time for worrying about the "cool" sexy stuff when she's a teenager. :scared:

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

10. A good way to seperate nuts from their money

If you can get them to pay a premium for all that fabric, more power to you.

[jgraz]

15. I have gotta start gettin me some of that nut money

They have a lot, and apparently they'll believe anything.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

29. There must be a niche market for it

I'm surprised, though, because in the first site the garments would be something a moderately good sewer would be able to make on their own, especially the jumpers.

[AlCzervik]

11. the last link has some really pretty wedding dresses, when i look at my own

wedding pics i guess my dress was pretty modest in terms of coverage.

[SeattleGirl]

12. Wow. That first site is a place where Half Pint and Ma Ingalls would shop.

That is weird shit for these days.

The swimwear is scary!

The last site wasn't bad at all.

[Liberal Veteran]

23. Pa? How come Nelly Olsen can get a new Pettiblouse and bloomers, but I get hand me downs?

:shrug:

[SocratesInSpirit]

13. Teh ugliness...it burns!

Since when did dressing modestly mean you had to dress 100 years out of date? Some of the girls on the first website look like they stepped out of "Little House on the Prairie"

[gollygee]

14. That Hannahlise stuff is pretty enough but not practical for every day IMO

the first site looks like dresses for a Little House on the Prairie halloween costume.

But it doesn't bother me. If people can run around with their ass crack showing, they can run around in 1890s clothes. We're free to wear what we want.

[Retrograde]

43. yeah, some of them aren;t half bad

I have some dresses that look a little like them. The first site though - how can you swim in all that??

[KiraBS]

50. Faux Denim bothers me.. why not real denim skirts..

I liked the wedding dresses because I loathe fussy, frilly wedding dresses and the bridesmaids dresses
are actually better then most dresses with frills and ruffles.

The bathing suits bother me, they have to be heavy so swim in and dangerous for small children that are not confident swimmers. A swimming costume has a purpose of making the swimmer glide easily through the water. And no little girl that learns to swim in all that clothing is going to learn to swim seriously or going to be inspired to be athletic.

The outfits themselves would be ok, it is the mentality behind them, that says little girls are immodest without ankle length skirts and layers of clothes.

[jmowreader]

52. Because you couldn't lift a "modest" skirt made from real denim

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

17. grew up around Amish and Mennonite

never saw anything wrong with their dress. Actually, the second and last sites have some clothes that look good to me. Since none of these places mandate that all women wear them, what's the harm? I'd hate to live in a world where everyone had to dress in miniskirts and bikinis, neither of which have ever looked good on me.

[Liberal Veteran]

18. Here's some modest men's clothing

[AlCzervik]

20. sure it says "Modest" in terms of coverage but it screamns "Dandy fop!"

[Liberal Veteran]

25. Well, those who are "light in the loafers" need modest clothing too!

LOL

[AlCzervik]

26. you don't have to light in the loafers to be "Dandy fop".

[Liberal Veteran]

27. But it doesn't hurt!

:D

[Cobalt-60]

42. It's the slash and puff

[terisan]

24. Global Warming+Econ. Depression+Fatter America=Coverup that Skin & yields $$$$ for Hannahlise.

This is the wave of the future for the plump and fair-skinned. Get your burkas in white though for maximum comfort in the sun.

[percussivemadness]

30. Well, look at the positive side

It could be Christian Bondage Gear, you know, crown of thorns, whips, being "nailed" to a cross-like sex toy, all modeled by women like Coulter and Lynne Cheney (and I use women in the very broadest sense, such as Barbara Bush (senior) is a "woman"...)

peace

[terisan]

45. Good Point!

[yella_dawg]

31. I don't get it.

The fundies come banging on my door insisting that my religious beliefs are inferior, there's a serious problem. If they want to dress funny, what the fuck do I care? They can dress up as Big Bird and dance around the courthouse as long as they leave me alone.


Why the nastiness about poor fashion sense? You want to see real sartorial horror, flip through photos of just about any fashion show in my lifetime. Laugh if you have to, but save the bile for something that makes a damn.


I have to admit, though, the all-denim look is kinda disturbing.

[bemildred]

There is nothing wrong with women wanting to dress modestly.

Or any other way they want to dress. It's nobody else's business.

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[DURHAM D]

33. I think you should edit your post to add

a link to the Mormon garmets that they wear under their clothes.

Its really pretty amazing. Everytime you see Mitt, the Mrs, and the five boys just remember what they have on underneath.

[yurbud]

34. I posted the beach burkha website before--no need for porn once that's bookmarked...

[hyphenate]

36. Perhaps they sell to the

Mennonites? I don't think the Amish will wear anything with zippers or machine sewing--I could be wrong. Nothing wrong with that, but these small groups are most likely not the profit hounds the clothes designers are looking for.

I think that these so-called "Christians" are in a hurry to bring the world back to the Middle Ages--or the Dark Ages. It was a time when those on an extreme right-winged Christian bent were in control and that's what they want to do again. They're afraid of the world leaving them "behind" and that's why they want to leave everyone else "behind." And while I lament the need for a little more formality at times (and who wants to see some of the hideous fashions that are currently out there?), I think that putting women and children--mostly--into such "modest" outfits is just a reminder of how many of these religious nuts want to keep women in their "place."

[DURHAM D]

39. I think you are right.

Last week I was at my local 7-11. A car pulled up and three girls between the ages of 6 and 10 got out. All of them had long hair (as in never been cut), long skirts (it was over 100 degrees) and over sized t-shirts on that said "My Body Belongs to Jesus Christ".

I was still in my car talking on the phone. I noticed that the two oldest girls went to the candy bar section and filled their pockets with candy. Their father was standing right beside them. Their father then got a bottle of water and went to the counter to pay. By this time I was in the store and just watching. The girls just hung back while the father paid. As he finished I calmly asked from behind him "Do the candy bars the girls stuffed in their pockets also belonged to Jesus Christ?"

The father made a big scene - acted like he didn't know what they had done, acted like he was really angry at the girls, and told them Jesus was going to punish them. I then asked him if I could buy a candy bar for each of the girls. He snarled at me and said no - they don't deserve them.

The store owner is a friend and he told me the whole bunch comes in all of the time and Dad just buys a bottle of water. He had never suspected what they were up because of the Jesus stuff.

[yurbud]

38. their bikini section is HOT (PHOTO)

Check out the ankle on that one chick--ooo lah lah!

[pansypoo53219]

41. TOES!

i saw TOES!
now i have the vapors.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

40. This is just typical Mennonite and Amish clothing

not some new fundy cult.

I used to live in a town that had a Mennonite church, and I'd see women dressed like that all the time.

[Blue_In_AK]

46. We have Old Russian villages up here

where the women dress quite a bit like this, and the men wear really cool embroidered shirts.

http://www.russiangiftsnina.com/photos.html

[KiraBS]

47. Those long gathered skirts look ugly on even the very little girls..

Not one of those sites has clothes for men. And I take it that romper suits and dungerees are out of the question for baby girls.
The children for the kings daughters are unlikely to every go anywhere near a school or
to have a education that does not involve how to sow and live as though the 21st Century is just a fantasy world of sin and iniquity.

[dropkickpa]

49. I need to find a site that has

Old school girls dresses. Dropkid wants to be Wednesday Addams for Halloween and I'm having a hell of a time finding a dress or pattern (all the costumes I've seen are for teens and up). Maybe one of the modesty sites will have one!

[napi21]

51. Why the big deal about Mormon underwear?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_garment

It's really not big deal. I personally woun't want to wear it because it's got to be HOT in the weather we've been having, but why the fuss?

[yurbud]

53. I thought it had nipple, genital, and bunghole holes in it.

for some kind of touching ceremony.

[napi21]

54. I didn't know anything about it, so I decided to do a search, since

I was reading so many odd remarks about Mittens and his underware. It does remind me of something out of the 18th century, but if that's really what you want to do,k who cares?

[yurbud]

55. somebody touching you through your special underwear would be more interesting than communion.