From an article describing right-wing propaganda directed at teens:
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"how to wear two pairs of jeans or a bodysuit under your clothes to make sure not a hint of skin is showing where it shouldn't be -- like your shoulders."
Calling Poe on the magazine. That is f@#%ed up...
Well, it says its a Latter Day Saints mag, so I guess that kind of lunacy is to be expected.
The cover girl looks like a freakin' hillbilly. In surprised her feet aren't bare.
Call me crazy, but I think the bottom part of what the cover girl is wearing would make a cute skirt, actually.
About the quote though, my school actually has a no-bare-shoulders rule in the dress code. No one bothers to enforce it though unless the girl is clearly trying to attract guys' attention with her outfit.
I was raised Mormon, and I don't ever recall being told to wear two pairs of pants. As a matter of fact, although pants and long shorts were condoned, you were really looked upon favorably for wearing dresses like a good girl.
The shoulders thing, though, is real. We moved to Florida from Colorado when I was seven, and everyone else was running around wearing short-shorts, tanks and short hair on account of the brutal summers. There we were sweating in long pants or short to our knees, short sleeves, and hair down to our waists, and practically fainting from heat exhaustion. And my mother can't figure out why I still resent that. Matter of fact, she still disapproves when she sees me wearing a tank-top, because it's so immodest and against god's commandments. (snort)
Eh, so long as they do it to themselves, what's the point? A child too infantile to brush off a brainwashing deserves to live like that. Nothing fundie, just old-fashioned.
I just looked at the magazine. The dress looks like something made from curtains - argh.
But two points occur: She's showing an awful lot of leg for such a supposedly modest young woman; and the pose is quite provocative too.
The cover does seem to show a girl who wears a designer dress expertly modified to include a burlap sack.
But that same article mentions a teen magazine J4G - that is the most horrifying thing I've read. Page after page of abstinence propaganda, and worst of all they say the same exact (phony) things for both girls and boys, but changed it to reflect common stereotypes. Arrgh! The girls section is the worst, and includes a fake testimony from a homeless woman and her wonderful rape baby.
I'm still undecided if I should subscribe, just to get more free comedy... Is this site for real? Looks a bit suspicious, and that's not because its mormon.
@Carrie: Agree, the lower dress could make a nice skirt. The whole outfit though screams "I wear everything I own".
Holy Hell! Wear two pairs of jeans? How do you move in that?
There's nothing wrong with dressing modest but admit it; you're gonna have to show off some skin during the summer unless you enjoy being wet and sticky.
What century do you people live in? One of my grandmother's stories was about how her grandmother walked out of a vauldeville show in Worcester because the women dancing on stage had shown their ankles. Remember, this was an Irish immigrant 100 years ago, and even my very religious grandmother considered it to be a bit prudish. The 21st century is nice. Come along and join the rest of us.
Huh, I think they did a seminar at my college once. That or it was put on by the students, which is certainly a possibility, seeing as it's the state with the second largest Mormon population.
I'm still scratching my head about wearing two pairs of jeans at once. That said, I rather like the outfit the girl is wearing on the cover. Modest it may be (no shoulders, cleavage or midriff), but it's certainly not frumpy.
Why do I immediately think of Supergirl or one of the superheroines in the X-men?
Clearly I associate bodysuit-under-clothes with the Hot Amazon trope, and improbably scar-free athletic crime-fighters who have secret identities.
The magazine seems to have eased up immensely since 2008. I can't see how it looked then, but now it has "normal" looking clothes, just nothing above the knee.
Wearing one pair of jeans can be uncomfortable enough; wearing two pairs would surely restrict movability.
If God doesn't like skin, he shouldn't have created us like that...
Princess Daphne:
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A character from a laserdisc videogame - "Dragon's Lair" - which is one of only three preserved in the Smithsonian Institute (the others being "Pong" & "Pac-Man") showing more than just her shoulders. Indeed: was inspired by a centrefold in "Playboy" magazine.
The designer of this character (and the videogame) who signed this art, is a Mormon .
The fact Don Bluth is a Master of Animation isn't the only reason why I respect him so much: despite his religious beliefs.
Or perhaps he's simply not a fundie LDSer...?!
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