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Buy Clothes For Your Whole (Polygamist) Family

Posted by Alex Zalben


Above is a small collection of clothing offered by FLDSDress.com, which is all fine and dandy, until I tell you this:

FLDS stands for "Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints," a polygamist sect out of Texas that's currently involved in a major child welfare dispute. The clothes are, "clothing that meets the FLDS standards for modesty and neatness." So they may not be for everyone. Unless, by everyone, you mean the only people you will ever meet throughout the course of your life, who are probably blood relatives, who you will be forced to marry at some point.

Just throwing that out there.

[FLDS Dress]

[Via USA Today]


+ DIGG + DEL.ICIO.US + REDDIT
Posted Jul 03 2008, 09:00 AM
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jen said:

Not to mention they want at ridiculous amount for those 100% polyester dresses.  I mean, I generally don't have a problem spending $80 for a dress, however...

July 3, 2008 10:07 AM

Mandy said:

Wow. FLDS isn't a compound in Texas. It's a religion all over the country (world?). "Mormon" is probably a term you will more easily recognize--that is what LDS members are commonly called. The Fundamentalist part (the F in FLDS) implies they are more uh, fundamental in the same way are Christian Fundamentalists, but I don't know that all FLDS Mormons practice polygamy. What I do know is that it is not a sect in Texas.

July 3, 2008 3:08 PM

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