This really looks like a typical mormon scam, but it does not look like typical garments.

But who would wear a T shirt with a golf shirt?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqZgxgd91rc

Those don't look like Mormon garments to me. The neck isn't wide enough, and Mormons aren't supposed to let their garments show like that. I don't have any explanation for wearing a t-shirt under a golf shirt though.

Dude is a "wealth" expert in St George, Utah.

I'm guessing yes.

We had crew neck garmies in the military to be in compliance with regulations. He may have a set of those.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/barrybrooksby

And a link to a Ballard talk on his FB page. ;-)

spaghetti, P.I.

Those are the only kind of garmies I used to wear. Same reason, I was working a job where you had to have a neckline visible beneath your uniform.

Maybe you're right. I had forgotten about the crew neck garments, and I didn't know Mormons let them show like that. I always thought you were supposed to keep them completely covered, especially when wearing short pants.

Impossible to tell for sure but very likely based on all the other stuff mentioned. I do know people that wear white shirts under gold shirts though. Mind that's up here in the cold white north, not in St. George.

They make crew cut garments as well, at least in the 90's when I wore them.

Its too hard to tell. A lot of non-Mormon's wear white shirts like that as an undergarment.

I discovered crew neck garments on my mission in the 80s. Some branches of the military and some police forces required a visible undershirt beneath the uniform. So the church made crew neck garments for them. But they'd sell them to anybody. I never wore anything else for 20 years. I hated the whole "celestial smile" design. For a while the crew necks were also the only ones that came in 100% cotton too. I hated the mesh other fabrics. In theory they were suppossed to be cooler but they felt like saran wrap to me.



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here is what I think is going on. He is wearing a regular t-shirt underneath the golf shirt (i.e. mormon guy uniform) WITH his garments on underneath all of that.

He is definitely is not TBM and hasn't worn garments for over 30 years.

I recently had dinner with a TBM ex-fiance who wears garmies and was also weearing a crewneck undershirt with an nice dress shirt. Too many layers!

Yeah, looks like a crew necked top.

My DH got rid of his garments recently and yes, they were all crew neck.

Looks exactly like the crew neck of a male garment top. It's a regular undershirt worn under an outer shirt.
Seen the same thing hundreds of times. Perfectly normal male attire in the LDS Church.

As a St. Georgian, I can tell you that a lot of the LDS men in the area wear garments like that.

Living my entire life in the eastern United States, I have been sighted a couple times at work for looking unprofessional for having a white t-shirt visible beneath my collar. The first was at a place where we had to wear polo shirts, and my employer thought it looked stupid. I didn't have any low cut garment tops, so I basically had to explain the whole garment thing to him. From then on, I was the weird Mormon guy, and people were always coming up to me saying, "Hey Coke drinker, Linda here doesn't believe you have to wear special underwear for your church. Can you explain it to her?"

The second time was because I was wearing a white collared shirt beneath a police uniform shirt. There had been a high profile killing in another part of the country, where it was learned the murderer had aimed for the white shirt of a cop, where it showed just above the collar, because he knew there would be no vest there. Nearly every police department in the country, except those in Utah where undershirts are magic, then banned exposed white shirts, in order to eliminate the easy reference point. I again had to explain my magical underwear.

I've seen Mormons wear white T shirts over the top of garments and then another shirt over the top of that. Too many layers...ridiculous!

I know non-Mo guys in Utah who are advised to wear T-shirts under their clothes to avoid discrimination.

I suspect it's similar to underarmor which plenty of tour golfers wear. Warm in winter wicks sweat in summer for cooling, and yes a shirt is worn over it.

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I've seen plenty of guys wearing plain white t-shirts under shirts like the one this guy is wearing. I've always lived in places where Mormons are very rare.