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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 --- 67 days ago http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/07/01/prairie_chic/index.html?source=rs
 Back in November, Jezebel noticed that designer Zac Posen's spring/summer 2008 line wouldn't have looked out of place on Nicki Grant, Chloë Sevigny's fundamentalist Mormon "Big Love" character. But why buy high-priced "prairie chic" knockoffs when you can get the real thing, straight from FLDS women themselves? That's right, ladies -- you too can dress your children in the height of polygamist fashion . What began as a homegrown effort to clothe the 440 children seized by Child Protective Services during the now infamous April raid on an FLDS compound in Eldorado, Texas, has now become an online business. The site sells everything from dresses to overalls to sleepwear, but the real draw is the one-piece, full-body underwear . A spokeswoman from Legal Aid said profits from FLDS Dress would help women to pay for apartments they've been renting since the raid, as they've been instructed to stay away from the compound until CPS's investigation is complete. Now, despite HBO's best efforts, the FLDS has never had a stellar reputation among the American public. So the obvious question is, Who's going to buy clothing associated with a polygamous sect that may well be perpetuating child rape? Well, according to Maggie Jessop, one of the women involved in the site, FLDS Dress has already had "a flood of interest." It isn't likely to be coming from fundamentalist Mormon mothers -- under normal circumstances, they tend to make their children's ... |
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