Latter-Day Chic
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Something has always bothered me about American Apparel clothes. No, it’s not the 50-pound boxes in which their shirts are shipped to retail stores. It’s not that they are the overpriced, low-quality uniform of the tragically cool hipsterati, though I loathe this, too. No, it was something else; something deeper and more sinister.
Once I spotted it, I couldn’t believe how simple it was. Some choice items from their online catalog look strikingly similar to Mormon undergarments. To wit:
Popular items from American Apparel
vs.
Popular items from your local LDS temple
As you can see, the two differences are that the American Apparel designers have taken the huge leap of using dye and that Mormons prefer flowery backdrops for their glamor shots.
After some research, I discovered that one of the groups uses these sacred garments as an outward showing of their devotion to a peculiar and exclusive religion. So do the Mormons; the only difference being that they refuse to wear them in public.
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