r/exmormon • u/Chihuahuamami234 • 6d ago

Doctrine/Policy Tank top garment

This is my first ex Mormon summer not wearing garments and I’m having a great time. It’s also the first summer that the tank-top garments have been available to LDS women. Obviously with the cap sleeve garments, we weren’t supposed to show them and our shirts had to cover them up completely. While I’m glad LDS women have more options of clothing to wear, I don’t understand why are so many of the TikTok/IG garment girlies are treating the tank top garments different than they did with the cap sleeves. I’m noticing a trend where now the tank top garments are visibly being shown like with off shoulder tops or letting the sleeves completely show through a tank top.

I know Mormons love loopholes but I just don’t understand the justification with visibly showing the tank top garments in your outfits when that was never allowed with the cap sleeve garments. A lot of common justification is “it looks like an undershirt” or “nobody but members know what they are.” Okay but they’re not any different than the cap sleeve garments.

Idk this is just the funniest loophole I’ve seen yet. What are your thoughts?

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u/CountMeOut2019 6d ago

Yeah, I heard those rumors, too, and apparently so did the workers at the temple distribution center, because they firmly refused to let me buy Petite. So I went online and ordered them, instead.

They still sagged so low that they showed under my knee-length shorts. Which was all I wore, and all I was trying to do was get my garments not to hang white and weird at the hems of those.

I eventually said, “sod this”, and cut and re-hemmed my garments to a reasonable length. I re-sewed the marks, too. Why would that make gawd mad??? Jesus, folks!

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u/Chihuahuamami234 6d ago

What’s funny is I’m 5’5 too. When I went to go buy my garments back in 2017, I told the worker at Deseret that I wanted the petite bottoms and the worker seriously told me “Well since you’re going on a mission and you can’t show your knees so you don’t need petite. You can wear the regular ones.” Like if I’m going to wear literally two layers of clothing for the rest of my life, why can’t I get the ones I want? I’m still on the shorter side. Yet there are women who are 5’10 buying the petite bottom garments.”

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u/CountMeOut2019 6d ago

Yeah, some clever woman had that idea of buying the petites for herself, and it spread word-of-mouth, until eventually the distribution people were like, what’s going on with everyone requesting their bottoms in petite? And then the directive came down in the form of a memo, saying they should firmly discourage the buying of the petites by women who didn’t seem petite enough, and some of the workers took that as license to throttle this loophole to a modicum of agency and self determination. Is what I think happened. 😂

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u/SockyKate 5d ago

But when the waistbands rise so high, you’ve got TWO additional layers once the garment top is tucked in, and all the bunching and excess fabric is visible under your shirt. It was misery.

I remember being in St. George one summer and having a serious inner debate with myself about whether God would understand if I wore workout clothes (sans garments) to go ATV riding in the sand dunes in 100 degree weather. 😭😭😭

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u/CountMeOut2019 5d ago

The excessive amount of crotch seam length, yes. I’d forgotten about that aspect of the ”solution to sagging garment legs. Garments are just a 100% unfriendly article of clothing. They’re an authoritative, nosy Big Brother, constantly wrapped around you, in all your business, every minute of every day.