Posted by:
severedpuppetstrings
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Date: September 15, 2016 04:15PM
baura Wrote:
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> You're on the right track.
>
> A generation or so ago the Morg realized that a
> lot of young
> women were wearing clothing that was not
> garment-friendly.
> When those young women went through the temple
> they found they
> either had to throw away a lot of their wardrobe
> or tuck.
> Well, tucking is forbidden.
>
> So the Morg decided to teach them to start wearing
> only garment-
> friendly clothing from the beginning. But you
> couldn't say it
> was about the super-sacred (not secret) garments,
> so they made
> it about "modesty." Sleeveless dresses and tops
> suddenly
> became immodest. The FRIEND even had a story
> about a little
> girl whose grandmother or someone gives her a
> sleeveless
> sun-dress as a gift. But the little girl felt
> immodest wearing
> it. So Mom got her a T-shirt to wear under and
> now the little
> girl feels OK.
>
> The kicker is that since this was about "modesty"
> and not about
> Mormon religious clothing, it spilled over into
> the secular
> realm with Mormon school leaders deciding that
> sleeveless prom
> dresses were "inappropriate" and "immodest" which
> put Utah in
> the national spotlight with stories like this:
>
>
http://www.people.com/article/high-schooler-told-d> ress-inappropriate-school-dance
>
> To see how recent this is here's the official
> portrait of Judy
> Lynne Green, BYU's homecoming queen for 1964:
>
>
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/1234> 289_10153316846330634_337809910_n.jpg?oh=2e52bb55d
> 2df40b38b3cc01d2968757e&oe=586E6DB9
Oy vey!
It's funny, in Maryland where I live, I've seen girls wear sleeveless dresses like the one in the first article to YSA dances. There were no issues...or so it looked that way.