elusiveat ([info]elusiveat) wrote,
@ 2008-04-22 10:57:00
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polygamy fashion (if it's on CNN it must be news)
Fashion analysis of the way women dress in Mormon polygamy compound that's evidently been making news.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/22/polygamy.fashion.ap/index.html
'John Llewellyn, a polygamy expert and retired Salt Lake County sheriff's lieutenant, says the women cover themselves "so that they're unattractive to the outside world or other men."'

So maybe I spend too much time with anachronists, but when I look at those dresses and hairdos, I might see "conservative" or "modest", but the word "unattractive" really doesn't jump to mind at all.

And then it occurs to me how bizarre it is that they felt the need to include an article on this at all.

Humans are weird.

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[info]ordovician
2008-04-22 03:43 pm UTC (link)
A Fashion Crime? Is that why it is under the Crime section of the NYT?

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[info]adeliedreams
2008-04-22 03:57 pm UTC (link)
I seem to recall there being similar "news" about Burqas a while back...

I'd wager that Wicca/General Neo-Paganism will be next (scandal over "non-symbolic" initiations + "they're not wearing anything" = Media Party)

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[info]jkao
2008-04-22 04:27 pm UTC (link)
For a moment I read that as, "So maybe I spend too much time with anarchists...", and was very confused.

On the subject of fashion, and since it's spring again, I'm perennially surprised and mildly shocked by the NU undergrads.

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[info]flwyd
2008-04-22 05:22 pm UTC (link)
That rather misses the part where mystery is attractive. In a (sub)culture where the fashion norm doesn't leave much to the imagination, ankles rarely get eroticized. But when everyone's wearing skirts that brush the floor, the briefest flash of skin can be a huge scandal and a big turn on.

Mainline Mormons are also supposed to dress modestly, including the famous spiritual undergarments. But despite the dearth of cleavage on display, plenty of Mormon women are deemed attractive, and a common tater from Salt Lake County ought to know that.

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[info]mikecap
2008-04-22 06:02 pm UTC (link)
I await the followup article:

"HOT FULLY CLOTHED AMISH ACTION!!! NO ZIPPERS, BONNETS AND WIDE BRIMS!!"

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[info]xuth
2008-04-22 08:14 pm UTC (link)
Ug... the article itself is awful. Clearly only this group of FLDS people are polygamists. Ever. Thus this is "polygamist" fashion. Then there's all the stuff that's just barely related and tied together poorly.
On top of that is the complete shallowness of the people quoted. Who finds these people?

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[info]mdyesowitch
2008-04-23 07:31 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, German Baptists dress similarly and they're monogomists (I almost typed monotonous...) And lets not forget the Amish, the Chassic, the Charadim (religious Jews, even modern orthodox), and pretty much just about any other religious sect in which both modesty and monogomay are stressed.

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[info]sprrwhwk
2008-04-22 08:40 pm UTC (link)
What, exactly, must one do to become a "polygamy expert" worthy of being quoted on CNN? I bet it's something really onerous like printing up business cards with "polygamy expert" on them. On your mother's inkjet printer.

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