If you're like me, you wonder where fundamentalists get their swimwear...I mean wholesome wear! The intro to this site, www.wholesomewear.com ("modest clothing for wearever"), says that their bathing suits "highlight the face, rather than the body"...which I seem to remember Jim Bob Duggar saying to explain his kids' bathing suits at a family picnic. I also seem to remember the Taliban.Prices start at $71.00, which is competitive, I guess, if you were trying to decide between wholesomewear.com and J. Crew. Have you seen people wearing these?
My grandfather gave me a book several Christmases ago about modesty and how there's a new modesty movement going on (as of 1998). You can see it in the Duggar family and in that compound they raided in Texas last year, but where else? Can't you just be modest without making a big deal about it or looking dowdy? Not everything has to be sexualized; there's no shame in wearing a one-piece bathing suit. This stuff is just so very interesting to me--like Quiverfull-interesting--yet the Duggar show is pretty boring, sorry to say.
2 comments:
am i crazy or is the wholesome wear kind of fashionable? i mean it's just like wearing a dress on the beach - no biggie. in fact, last time i was at the beach there were a few girls i'd like to see wearing wholesomewear because i can't take them falling out of 2 pieces.
true, but here's what gets me: the snaps and zips all on/under the dresses (look at the description) and the fact that those shirts underneath are sewn in, aka permanent.
it just doesn't seem that comfortable or functional. but for some people who still haven't figured out bikinis, they would be a bigggg step up.
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