FLDS Fashions Available Online

Amy Kuras — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:01:00 GMT

When watching the FLDS raid and subsequent court battles, I'm sure you had many thoughts going through your head, none of which I will attempt to guess at.

But I can guarantee (if you are a regular around here, anyway) that one thing you probably weren't thinking was "Where can I get my mitts on those clothes!!"

But perhaps your fantasy is to look like you just stepped out of Little House on the Prairie, or you're so concerned with the increasing whoreishness of girls' clothes that you want to just go the other way.

Then get happy, because the women (somehow I know it's the women) of the FLDS have launched their own clothing line. Which is available online, and I don’t really get how that would work since these are people who reject technology. But whatevs.

Also, how are they sewing these things, especially if this takes off? Are they sewing these by hand? How does is not take several decades?

So many questions. And yet, I must admit, I find the little girl's dresses kind of adorable and sort of want one for my daughter, and one of the cute sleepers for my son. What can I say, I loved Little House, books and show.

Good Lord. I'm a Naked Mom--Just Like Britney.

Kelly Mills — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:32:00 GMT

Did you catch the Slate thing on naked parents? As I've glanced at Britney's meltdown, I was aware she may have whitened her kids' teeth, and that she gave them soda, but somehow I missed that one of her crimes was parading around nude in front of her boys. I must've just blocked that out, because, well, my six-year-old has seen me naked. In fact, she did just this morning. And the Slate parenting experts say that kids over the age of four probably shouldn't get the buff view of the 'rents, because it's confusing. Maybe traumatically so. Especially if you are Freudian.

I'm no exhibitionist and I'm not righteously earthy and naked: I'm just not a very modest person (hence being a blogger). I don't change under a towel at the gym. Sometimes I forget to close the curtains at home. And I'm famous for leaving bathroom doors open, to my family's chagrin, though there are definitely loo activities I don't make others privy to. My sister has seen me naked, as have most of my female friends. So I guess I haven't thought much at all about changing my clothes in front of my girl, or letting her jump in the shower with me. We've talked about privacy in some things like masturbation, and I'd certainly never let her witness anything remotely sexual. But nakedness? Um, guilty. Sorry, it just doesn't weird me out, and more importantly, she's never expressed anything approaching discomfort with it so far, though now I'm sure I'll be hypersensitive to that.

I was raised to be freaked out by nudity but it didn't stick, and I suppose on some level I have assumed that the problem isn't so much the skin-showing, but more when parents are themselves uncomfortable and the kids pick up on it and internalize it. That's my amateur psychology/concerned justification for the day. Because while I'm a little bewildered by the social rules about skin-showing, I'd never, ever wanna do anything that would hurt my sweet girl.

So whaddya do? Stop all parental nakedness at age three? Explain why? Or wait until the kid makes it clear they don't wanna see that, or until it just feels like time to stop? Or say to hell with clothes and be nude forever? And by the way, what does this mean for breastfeeding in front of the older sibs?

Strollerderby : modesty

FLDS Fashions Available Online

Good Lord. I'm a Naked Mom--Just Like Britney.