Burka Alternatives: You guys won't believe this Freeper Fashion show!

[Modem Butterfly]

I found this during an unfortunate foray into freep-dom.

http://www.liliesapparel.com/

LILIES OF THE FIELD began in response to the need for women and girls to return to principles of modesty and femininity — to truly dress like women of virtue and principle. For more information on why what we believe affects our dress, click on the link to the left.


Many folks have found it very frustrating to try to find the kind of clothing that would honor the Lord. Lilies of the Field provides attractive, modest, feminine, high-quality clothing for girls and ladies. We design our clothing with high standards of modesty, custom made in your size. We offer a large selection of styles including maternity/nursing wear hard to find elsewhere with a dozen different fabrics to choose from. Fabric styles and patterns include denims, floral prints, mini prints, corduroy, flannels, plaids, checks and poly-cottons.

[Sannum]

1. Holy Fuck that stuff is ugly!

[rkc3]

30. Wasn't Rick Santorum's wife weating a similar dress yesterday?

I swear to jeebus it was damn close - someone here even pointed out that she looked preggers in the picture.

[malachi]

83. No, Ricky was the one that ws so fetching in his LOTF dress.

[rkc3]

89. Here's the dress - even it's too daring for her - she needs a sweater.

[PA Democrat]

104. Looks like a maternity dress

Is she pregnant AGAIN?

[fujiyama]

LOL

Thinking the same exact thing! Then again, it is Santorum so she's little more than a baby making factory.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

134. "Okay, Rick, we get it. Your junk works.

Now leave that poor woman alone."

I'm paraphrasing/updating an SNL joke about Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. I think it fits the situation. :)

[spinbaby]

2. What the...

The cast of Sound of Music?

[marions ghost]

45. Little House on The Prairie

or the Waltons...extreme retro--like a couple centuries ago.

Women look silly in little girl dresses. They also look silly in the more extreme of today's peek-a-boo fashions. It's a time of extremes, of polarities.

Oh well, at least we'll be able to tell who are the hardcore "Econo-wives" at a glance. "The Handmade's Tale" come true...

[spinbaby]

64. yeah, Little House

I was reacting less to the retro aspect of the look than to the everything-matches-and-is-made-out-of-curtains aspect.

[marions ghost]

73. ...and the conformity of

everyONE matches, like a slightly varied litter of puppies. Uh oh, with that thought now I'm having disturbing visions of reruns of the Lawrence Welk show...yikes, the Return of the Lennon Clones.

Non-conformists don't like these images. But LOL --I hate to think what I'd be wearing if my clothes DID match my politics !?!

[mondo joe]

3. I'll bet you'd look mighty fine in a Priscilla Dress.

Post a photo! ;-)

[Modem Butterfly]

34. I would, but tacky clothing makes me break out

It's some kind of weird allergy.

[JimmyJazz]

4. I couldn't resist. I just HAD to have the swimsuit:

[Sannum]

9. That is a slutty swimsuit! you could practically see someone's collar bone

and calves!

[JimmyJazz]

25. I am a floozy.

:D

[Modem Butterfly]

49. Careful! You could drown in all that material!

[Straight Shooter]

67. For $63, that swimsuit is an absolute steal!

But stealing violates a commandment. Whatever is a pious girl to do? :)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

5. Are they all eunics?

Heaven's Gate called - they want their uniforms back!

[rkc3]

19. Eunuchs? That couple has 8 kids. All the parts must be in working order.

[Union Thug]

6. Pilgrims will LOVE this clothing line!!!! n/t

[KittyWampus]

7. Young Girl In Photo Has Hand Over Her Womb. These Shots Are Staged

in advertisements like this you can tell how staged it is... positions of figures and how they're holding themselves etc.

Girl in front has her hand over her womb.

[KittyWampus]

14. Nothing Like Shrouding The Lilies.... Get It, Like Gilding The Lilies...

which is probably how the company came up with their name.

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[west michigan]

125. Amish wedding photo?

???

[Squatch]

8. Nice...making fun of other peoples' beliefs

And I thought it would never happen on DU.

:sarcasm:

[Modem Butterfly]

26. We're making fun of their fashion sense

I don't recall reading anything in the New Testament requiring women to wear a burlap sack.

[Squatch]

28. Nice quibble, but wrong.

[QC]

88. Maybe they've never seen Mennonites before.

Some people don't get out much, you know.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

96. This thread needs to go away...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=hutchinson%2C+kansas+mennonite

Hutchinston, Kansas has a large Mennonite population - I don't think these people are our friends from that other site...

[LisaM]

10. Clothing to honor the Lord? Now I've heard it all.

Did you see the "lingerie?" They actually sell BLOOMERS. It makes me want to put them on with fishnet tights and a bustier and dance the can-can.

[ck4829]

11. Ha! Some of the Muslim girls that I know dress better and more liberally.

[Richard Steele]

Check out the SWIMWEAR:

Edit: someone beat me to it.
I have seen MENNONITE girls swimming, and even they didn't wear this ridiculous getup.

[Oreo]

12. wow

I think my sofa was this fabric back in the 70's



Each time I have received a package from you, I was so grateful and delighted. It is a blessing to receive such beautiful well-crafted clothing. Thank you so much. God began convicting us about modest, feminine dress 5-6 years ago. I could not sew and have not yet learned, but thanks to your ministry, we still have been able to obey our Lord’s leading. JW

[uppityperson]

32. I like this dress. Be open minded people

It looks like what I wear in the summer to work. So long as they don't push the swimsuit onto anyone, they should have the freedom to wear what they want. This is not as outrageous as that guy in the swimsuit thong last month.

[kliljedahl]

48. "God began convicting us "?

Of what, stupidity & no fashion sense?


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[eleny]

13. They look Amish

[Union Thug]

15. Except no self respecting Amish woman..

would wear that ugly train-wreck of a swimsuit cited above!!!

[LisaM]

20. They look Mennonite

a couple of years ago I went to a beach and saw two young girls in bikinis, suntanning and smoking. Then they saw me and hastily got dressed and left on their bikes. They put on long blue dresses and bonnets and rode away. LOL.

[Initech]

56. I was going to say the EXACT same thing

Very very VERY Amish!

[kestrel91316]

127. Not Amish ..........

the Amish NEVER wear prints, only solid colors, and absolutely NEVER any red.

[Generic Other]

16. Bloomers!

[lumpy]

115. Oh my, these look like the

bloomers Mom couldn't make me wear in 1930. I got my way, Sears rayon panties.

[alphafemale]

133. No joke, I made a set for my daughter for sleep pants. But they're cute.

Eyelet fabric with satin and embroidered touches.

But given that girls often sleep in Boy boxer's and T-shirts?

It's kind of a more feminine twist on a general look.

[Karmageddon]

17. Oh man, who needs Victoria's Secret with a lingerie dept like this?

I'll be sending this link to my wife pronto!

[Richard Steele]

22. She's a lucky woman! Welcome to DU!

[progressoid]

18. Check out the unmentionables!!!

They actually call it lingerie!

[teach1st]

21. As long as these folks don't push their beliefs...

...on others, why should it bug anybody.

Making fun of people because of their lifestyle? Kind of low.

[spunky]

60. I agree. Plus, my mom actually made me some dresses

similar to a couple of the little girls ones when I was a kid.

Sure I hated them, but its not like they're alien or something.

Seems to me, at DU of all places we should not be mocking people for lifestyle choices that harm no one.

[kestrel91316]

128. Ahem .............

the right-wing fundamentalist "christians" who make their women dress like this are EXACTLY the ones who want all of us to be just like them. They are called Dominionists.

[Goldmund]

23. Damn

Them be fugly.

[Cleita]

24. Looks like they bought up the costumes from

"Little House on the Prairie". Seriously, those clothes are worn by certain sects of Mennonites I have seen in my travels. Add the bonnet and apron and you have a complete ensemble. They make quilts from the old clothes that they sell to tourists.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

50. Great minds think alike. I thought immediately

of "Little House" when I saw this. I can just picture Nellie Olsen in one of the swimsuits.

[noiretextatique]

27. i never understood why dresses and skirts are considered "modest"

since the family jewels are so...exposed :crazy: i always thought it would make more sense for "modest" women to wear pants.

[napi21]

33. That's why they sell bloomers.

[noiretextatique]

41. you wear underwear under pants also

:shrug: still doesn't make sense.

[GreenPartyVoter]

29. All looks the same to me. I mean, I like it.. but would want more variety

[Canuckistanian]

31. For all your cult clothing needs

Comfortable and hides those nasty bruises.

[dogday]

35. Looks like a dress make from curtains

ugly stuff, I would not dress my dog in that....

[Modem Butterfly]

36. Very "Gone with the Wind"

[dogday]

68. Ever see Carol Burnett do that scene?

she makes the dress from the curtains and wears it curtain rod and all. I howl every time I think about it.....

[Modem Butterfly]

77. Fiddle-dee-dee

BOOM!

[BlueStateGirl]

37. I don't have a problem with modesty, but does modesty have to equal

butt ugly?

[luxpara]

38. Didn't you read "The Handmaids Tale"? The name of the

clothing store for the handmaids was Lilies of the field. If you haven't read that book, you need to. Scary shit!!

[Modem Butterfly]

44. I read it in college, but I didn't remember that part.

YIKES!

:scared:

[marions ghost]

53. OMG

I thought of The Handmaid's Tale too. The clothing store in that was Lilies of the Field? What a coincidence.

[Modem Butterfly]

55. It's from the New Testament

Words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, encouraging his followers not to worry about their worldly needs: “Why take ye thought for raiment ? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”

[stanwyck]

99. and more fact than fiction

these days. The creepy commander character was so rightwing evangelical sexually screwed up. Remember that club the men had...with the women dressed as whores? Whenever I see Ralph Reed I think about that book.
Give me good ole horndog Democratic men any day. I like that libido right up front where we all can see it.
Not hidden behind pious faces, hiding perversions.

[napi21]

39. Most of those dresses remind me of the ones my mother wore

when I was a little girl. I'm 61 now!

The one thing I was looking for was the length of the skirts and I couldn't seem to tell. To me that would be the telling sign.

Other than that, the styles are from the 40's & 50's.

I guess there really is some truth in the statements some dems are making..."The Extreme RW of the Pub Party want to stack the SCOTUS and take this country back to the 50's".

[Cleita]

59. My mother never wore anything that baggy in the forties and

I never wore anything that butt ugly in the fifties. They look like the "house dresses" our neighbor wore that she bought for a couple of dollars each back during the Depression and that she never threw away.

[napi21]

62. Yea, that's what they were called...house dresses.

I forgot that term.

[lumpy]

117. Fitted suits were de rigeur in the 50s.

With gentler shoulder pads, girdles( oh god!) hat and gloves while on the street. Baby doll shoes(ugh)I had a pair. Also, boufant dresses were popular (fun).

[lumpy]

116. The New Look was pop

around 48/50s. Longer skirts, coats. Fashion comes and goes. Prints are becoming fashionable again , but I haven't seen any hambone or puff sleeves (ugh), yet. Keep an eye on Paris Hilton.

[Stirk]

40. Cool! Her chastity belt matches her purse.

Such style.

[calico1]

42. Wow, thanks for posting this site!

I was needing some new bloomers and my prarie bonnet also needed replacing. :rofl:

[MisterP]

43. Lilies of the Field was the clothing store in "A Handmaid's Tale"

[cdb]

46. White Christian fashions- Chimp voters to be sure...n/t

[Scout]

47. I don't care for much of the womens clothes...

but I didn't see anything wrong with a lot of the girls clothes.

I actually miss wearing jumpers and blouses occasionally. I usually wear jeans, or shorts, but if I want to wear non-slacks/pants a jumper would be a good choice for me, instead of a blouse and skirt or a dress. I have "figure issues" with much of women's clothes ... I'm very short waisted with normal length legs. Dresses with fitted waists don't fit properly, and petite pants fit well in the rise/waistline but the legs are too short. Normal length legs fit me fine, but then the rise/waist is too tall and comes up to my bra (almost).

Yeah, the swimsuits aren't real great but I'd rather wear one of those than butt floss and dixie cups on a string.

[theboss]

51. Call me when I have teenaged daughters

This might look revealing by then.

Of course, I've always felt Amish culture is bound to catch on at some point.

[ThoughtCriminal]

52. I imagine the "Mother/Daughter Look-alikes" are appealing

For some of the "Freep-Dads"

[notadmblnd]

54. Oh I just cant live without this

Now.. now ladies, I don't want to fight with you over it. I saw it first.

[Cleita]

57. Either that couple has eight kids or the teenager to

the left is another wife and a couple of the kids are hers.

[SammyWinstonJack]

58. ROFL

I just gotta have those bloomers! :rofl: :rofl:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

61. Yes, it's the Cultware Collection!

:rofl:

[LeftNYC]

63. Ugly...I could see Laura Bush parading around the oval office wearing...

this stuff, eyeing Chimpy with a come hither look. or maybe Rove?

[jimshoes]

65. Hats and bonnets....

Where are the hats and bonnets. And beards for the men.

No thank you very much. I prefer living in the 21st century

[Oreo]

72. They sell bonnets too

[pnorman]

66. As appalled as I am at the mindset of these people,

I'm not all that upset over this sort of thing. Let them dress in the manner they wish, worship in the same manner, etc, etc. They can even recite the Pledge of Allegiance with that McCarthy-era "under God" modification. Doesn't bother me one damned bit. I'll continue using the Pledge I learned in grade school a long time ago --- the King James Version, so to speak.

Just DON'T let them force others to conform to their ways, and DON'T let them use tax-payer $$$$ in the process.

pnorman

[jbane]

69. Isn't that what that wacko in Texas that drowned her kids had on?

Who needs birth control with dresses and underware like that.

[UncleSepp]

70. Modest doesn't have to be hideous, unless it's for a reason

If I had daughters, I wouldn't want them running around in a lot of what I see kids in. Slutty clothes do not need to come in kid sizes! But why so ugly?

What's being made fun of here is the style. Personally, I think the style is odd for a reason beyond modesty. Christian-marketed modest clothing tends to run toward Little House On The Prairie, but it doesn't HAVE to. For example, look here at some modest, sporty swimsuits:

http://www.wholesomewear.com/page-4.html

These cover up just as much as the horrible flowered bloomer thing, but look like sportswear and not like adult baby costumes made out of a slaughtered tablecloth.

Here's a whole catalog page of modest clothing suppliers:

http://www.modernmuslima.com/clothiers.htm

Poke through there and look at the difference between the Christian, secular, and Muslim links. It's possible to cover up and not have your everything hanging out without looking like an extra from a cheap Western. Notice that on this Muslim page, there are secular and Christian links. Would you expect a Christian-oriented modest clothing list to link to a store that sells "Goth hippie clothes" ? This page does. If the skirt fits, wear it, right?

Wrong, if what you're really trying to do is announce to the world how holy and Christian you are, to set your kids apart from other kids that might not think like you, and to reinforce this Village concept of living in a simpler, sweeter time. Isn't one of the principles of modesty not to draw attention to yourself? Wouldn't looking like you just wandered away from a casting call for Oklahoma! draw a bit of attention?

The clothes being made fun of here are being made fun of because they're funny little costumes for Christians who want to full-time-LARP, not because they're modest. Yes, there is an element of mocking people's beliefs. These folks apparently think that a Jew who lived two thousand years ago in the Middle East wants them to dress up their wives and children like pioneers on a wagon train in the American West. What's not to mock? It's silly.

[Modem Butterfly]

78. Well, I disagree with you about the swimsuits in the first link...

looking sporty, but it's certainly less ugly and more practical than the other stuff.

[UncleSepp]

85. I guess "looks like it is supposed to be sportswear" is better

It is in the right colors and fabrics, at least.

[hippywife]

118. Some of the abayas are

actually very beautiful. We belong to the Interfaith Alliance and one of the Muslim women who works on the board is a very lovely woman in every way.

[javadu]

74. Another Site For Modest Women's Apparel

Look at these cultish looking women. I bet they make curtains out of these clothes. I bet wackos in Texas wear these clothes when they kill their children.

http://www.desertstore.com/For-Sale-Directory/Prayer-Clothes-Outfit.html



come on duers -- lte's not poke fun of other people's beliefs.

[Double T]

75. Rolling Back The Hands Of Time To The Days Of The Puritans.....

Well ladies, will they take away your right to vote NEXT?????

[frictionlessO]

76. Wow self loathing of human body reaches new highs and ermm lows...

Seriously I feel so bad for these kinds of regressive unhappy people.

Orgasms must be hard to come by.

[donco6]

79. The sleeves are too short.

This isn't modest at all. The arms should be completely covered. You don't want some man looking at your arms, do you?

Seriously, I used to know some people who made their kids wear this kind of stuff - WITH long sleeves. No jewelry. No perfume or makeup allowed. No fixing up their hair. Very fundie Christian - everyone else was going straight to hell.

[kenny blankenship]

80. What ? No BONNETS? No Shawls?

It's not right for women to go about in public uncovered.
Cover thyself Strumpet!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

93. No shawls but yes! bonnets! lol!

http://www.liliesapparel.com/cgi-bin/ez-catalog/cat_display.cgi?3X309466

[kenny blankenship]

94. You're right

but they ought to be wearing them. It's unChristian to go around uncovered.

[Jade Fox]

110. Need me one of them Prairie Bonnets! n/t

[Citizen Jane]

81. Hmmm, about the nursing bras and slips

It strikes me that no self-respecting Freeper would let their woman breastfeed in public if at all. Assuming that a Freeper gal is allowed to BF, don't you think she would be relegated to the back room? Is she buying a nursing bra/slip to hide herself from God?

Truthfully, if you are going to nurse alone there are easier ways to do it than dealing with a nursing bra and I DO speak from experience. Just interesting. See what I am saying? Why make nursing "lingerie" for women who are going to nurse in private and can, presumably, expose themselves (the horros) to do so without having to deal with the hooks and snaps of those torturous nursing bras (yes, some are comfortable, but these don't sound like that!).

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[true_notes]

82. It's 2005

for fuck's sake

[Syncronaut Seven]

84. Clicked on Lingerie and got bloomers!

Link must be broken. :lol:

[stanwyck]

86. Seriously, isn't that what Rick Santorum's

wife is wearing in another thread? Really. It's the same sexless, little girlish print (now, there's an odd dynamic)that Mrs. Santorum is wearing. "Wholesome" Quaker type clothing.
You have to wonder what kind of man finds that Mother Hubbard mixed with Sunday School Girlie stuff...enticing.
Not a man with normal urges.

[rkc3]

92. Yup - see my post up above.

[stanwyck]

97. You got there first!

I should have known you'd beat me to the punch.
Adult women wearing infantile clothing is a strange dynamic. Does Rick really wish his wife was a little girl? She doesn't have to show off her midriff...or show cleavage....or wear a short skirt. But, geesh, she's an adult. The Holly Hobbie dress is dreadful.

[OneBlueSky]

87. what you're seeing here is the post-BushCo uniform . . .

that will be required of ALL women once the dominionists take over . . . they're gonna call it the Handmaid's Tale line . . .

[yukie]

90. They all wear this stuff in Utah....n/t

[sakabatou]

91. I would see this being worn in conservative religious buildings

[greekspeak]

95. Wanna look like a Stepford Woman? Wanna make June Cleaver look cheap?

Try Lilies of the Field Custom Made clothing for women whose husbands cannot deal with the fact that their spouse is a sexual being. Our dresses reach to the floor, have baggy fronts that will cover up the biggest dirty pillows, and our gaudy, dated prints will make a true fashion statement: "Baptist Camp Prayer Revival"

Coming soon from Lilies of the Field: whalebone corsets, chastity belts, and a special new cloth called Thora-zon. This new cloth contains the powerful drug Thorazin, and is sure to make your wifey a good little girl who will more than gladly wait on you hand and foot. And it is almost impossible to get wrinkles out of it. Wifey will be ironing all day!

Lilies of the Field...setting women's fashion back 100 years or more. Or your money back! Praise Jesus.

[dancing kali]

98. Shirtwaists?!

A-lines? Jumpers? Chapel veils... they still have those? My mother used to make me wear things like that... she had better taste in fabrics however, and she would have thought the bonnet was tacky. I made a solemn vow to myself to never wear those things again. Now that I think of it... this clothing could have come out of my sister-in-law's closet.

Someone mentioned furniture upholstered in one of those fabric patterns... I had curtains that looked like one of the skirts... hey, I was a poor student and I found them junking.

I will admit to owning bloomers... I got them for a show. I now occasionally use them to sleep in when hubby is out of town. Bloomers aren't all that bad looking... ever see Julie Newmar in "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"? I wanted bloomers ever since I saw that song and dance number. I wouldn't want to wear them horseback riding however.

The swimsuits... and here I thought nothing could ever be uglier than the old blue gymsuits that we were required to wear for gym classes.

I should also mention that I'm not ragging on this because it's Christian... The attempt to proselytize on the site was to be expected. While my above mentioned sister-in-law is a fundie Christian who dresses and thinks like these folks, the site could have been just as easily aimed at Orthodox Jewish women, who from what I understand have a similar attitude towards modesty. I'm poking fun at it because everything was pretty damned ugly and most looked like rejects from June Cleaver's closet. Taste has nothing to do with religion.

I actually don't have a problem with the "modesty" thing. A little more modesty in clothing is not necessarily a bad idea. I don't care how an adult dresses. However, I don't really need to see someone's butt crack or that their pants are so low slung in the front I can tell that they probably opted for the the Brazilian wax at the spa. I don't think it's particularly attractive, but that's me. Personally, I'll be happy when I can find good old fashioned jeans again... ones that don't feel like they're falling off my hips when I walk.

On the other hand, I'm heartily sick of seeing the "pre-teen slut" look. Little girls should look like little girls... and I don't mean the pinafores and pig-tails in this catalogue when I say that. I just don't want to see them looking like 9 year old sluts. I've been fighting that battle for several years now and the thought of it makes me very cranky.

Stylistically speaking, while I don't think that looking like an extra for Anne of Green Gables is particularly a good look for me (frumpy wouldn't begin to describe it), my best friend does have a few dresses that would fit in with those in the catalogue and they look great on her... she was even told that they weren't conservative enough for her job (executive administrator of a charitable organization for people with cancer and their families). And, it wasn't that they expected the power suit either, the board thought she looked much too "artsy". Oh, I should mention that modesty isn't in her vocabulary... she just likes the dresses and also has better taste in fabrics and colours than these folks do. I guess it's all in how one wears their clothes.

I'll shut up now. Humourous site... maybe I'll send the link to sister-in-law... although my nieces would probably like me better if I don't.

[Modem Butterfly]

102. I agree with you about modesty BUT

There's a happy medium between "swaddled in yards of fabric" and showing the world where you got waxed.

[Lecky]

100. Oh. my. God.

:rofl:

[Cats Against Frist]

101. This is amazing

I see people wearing this stuff, around here, sometimes -- as we have a lot of Mennonites and other branches of Anabaptists, or whatever.

I have to say, that as a plain-dressing minarchist, myself, that I actually kind of like some of the dresses -- the dark colored ones, with the stripes and the checker patterns. The fact, however, that people are hawking them to make women dress more "modestly" is fucking disgusting.

[kestrel91316]

130. I don't think the Mennonites would go for ...........

those dresses in the bright, gaudy cabbage prints. They lean more toward solid colors or tiny calicos.

[DemGirl7]

103. Holy crap...To these people, The stuff I wear would be considered slutty..

and trust me, I wear stuff that isn't slutty by far...but shows a tiny bit of skin at least. And who wears bloomers...I don't know of a single person who still wears bloomers today...umm, last time I looked it is the 21st century, not the 18th.

[powergirl]

105. ARE THESE AMISH FASHIONS?

I'm not being sarcastic - check out the "lingerie.":think:

[Amaya]

106. Little House on the Prairie?

I'm gettin' some

Ladies Bloomers

[Taxloss]

107. Wow MB ... how do you find all this stuff?

I've stuffed this in the "theocracy" folder.

[Saphire]

108. WOW..check out the lingerie.....bloomers!

[Piperay]

109. Oh brother

you can find more modest clothes in stores if you look, not all clothes are designed for Brittany Spears....really it's all about the MONEY!

[stepnw1f]

111. Leave It To Beaver Dork Cult

These people get weirder and weirder all the time.

[NuttyFluffers]

112. Sweet! UberRetro Drag Wear! FAAABULOUS!

and now my friends can outfit Miss Chastity Pariah and company in full regalia.

need more drag names...

Goody Hardbottom

Prudence Preator

Dick Handcock

Huzzah! My prayers have been answered!

[entanglement]

113. Come on now! Aren't you being a tad prejudiced

against people just because of what they choose to wear? Exactly what is wrong with wearing 'retro', modest clothing? And why does that make someone a freeper?

[lumpy]

114. Fashion straight out of the 1930s.

Retro Modest.

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[expatriate]

120. Considering the outrage that shows up here

any time a thread talking about dress codes or uniform codes for workplaces shows up, and how many people scream and holler that nobody should judge them for what they choose to wear, no matter what it is, the responses on this thread are very, very telling.

These people aren't telling YOU to wear these clothes. They offer them for folks who want to wear them. They aren't saying eveyone has to wear them, only those who choose to. They didn't come to DU and post a thread about their site, saying "you heathens, come and buy our clothing and be modest!"

Have the people making merry here never heard of the Mennonites, or the Amish? There are other religious sects who dress this way as well. It's part of their faith. They don't push it on others. It's their own choice.

Maybe some find these clothes ugly, but there are some who find hip hugger jeans that are so low they show pubic hair ugly. Some people find "babydoll" t-shirts on grown women absurd. Different strokes. I wouldn't wear the clothing on the Lilies website, but I sure as hell wouldn't wear nine-tenths of what's for sale in the stores right now either, no matter how "fashionable" it is supposed to be.

Ridiculing people's religious beliefs is now part of being liberal?

As for the mentions of the "whacko in Texas" who drowned her children in the bathtub - she was wearing a blouse and slacks that day, I believe. And she was a severely mentally ill woman who had not been given adequate medical treatment through a combination of her insurance company's limitation of her care, her doctor's failure to have her properly diagnosed and treated, and her husband's neglect of and ignorance about her condition and the possible ramifications of leaving it untreated. She didn't just have post-partum depression - she'd been mentally ill, seriously mentally ill, for years before having children or getting involved with a fundamentalist sect.

Several times on this thread, I've noticed the term "Quaker" being used as a slam. Quakers are pacifists, folks. Maybe not the snazziest dressers, but they're sure opposed to war and violence. What's more important - fashionable dress style, or being opposed to war?

[ObaMania]

121. The testimonials were a hoot!

:rofl:

[formernaderite]

122. Not my cuppa tea...nor my wifes...

but I know some very left wing progressive women who dress similarly. Perhaps not the floral motif dresses...but definitely smocks and jumpers made from natural plant dyed fibres, paired with socks and birkies. To each his own.

[ole_evil_eye]

123. omg...

what a bunch of fundie freeper dorks


Forgive me if this is mean, I just wanna kick these people's asses. And I hope they turn the other cheek so I can kick the other one


lol....morans

[Sparkly]

124. If God liked our bodies, he'd have made us NAKED!!

Er, or, he meant to create us all with a biological muu-muu but the Libruls obstructed the plan...?

[Carni]

126. Thanks a lot

This is probably the first time I have ever barfed while on line :(

[NoSheep]

129. Is this what the men need to protect themselves from molesting their

offspring? :eyes:

[xxqqqzme]

131. how many do U have 2 buy

B4 U earn a conestoga wagon or a sod house?

[youthere]

132. I can CLEARLY see her wrists and ankles..

How is that modest?

[Technowitch]

135. Locking

The premise of this thread is disrepectful towards Mennonites, who prefer this sort of apparel -- and toward whom this garb is marketed.

In general, it's not nice to make fun of people or how they choose to dress.

Thanks,
Technowitch
DU Moderator