by misspeaches 21 Replies latest jw friends
My mum used to always tell me I should model myself on the clothes that we see people wearing in the WTBTS propoganda.
Have you seen the clothes those people wear? Errrk I mean there wasn't a bit of fashion about them. No wonder I had such a freakin hard time in highschool being forced to wear dweeb clothes.
This is from their site - it oozes of clothes my mum approves of.
Thank goodness I now have the freedom to dress myself...
Doesn't seem to have loaded up properly, I only get a red cross!
Touche' on the dweeb dub clothes at school...I kept my highschool skirt from grade 8 (despite having new ones made every year;) and wore it the whole way through, which as you can imagine got much shorter as I got taller! Don't know if mum ever really noticed in the school photo's lol!
I cant see the pic, but I know exactly what you are on about!
Every time I went out, my mum used to look me up and down and give me a look which was a perfect cross between withering, embarassment that I was her daughter and disapointment. ANd she always said "your not going out looking like THAT are you?"
This was a rhetorical question. I just used to go back inside and change everything, as I was never quite sure exactly what THAT was referring to.
God the thought of dweeby 20 year old handed down 3 piece suits and the JW approved haircut makes me cringe to even think about it. Ahhh No I would not wear any of that kind of attire unless I enjoyed making a fashion statement of geekism. Besides my 4X4 truck would not be a JW approved service wagon because it has a 6" lift kit, and adorns an innapropriate decal of a lady in scantily clothing. Nevermind the ungodly worldly music that plays on my cd player. LOL Oh the life of a dub, could it be anymore exciting, cheap suits, 4 door sedans, and lets not forget thoese jamming kingdom melodies that they love to rock out too on a saturday service day. I'll keep my clothes and they can have theirs.
Ticker
Darn it... I didn't realise that the picture wasn't working... Try again... LOL
I made some of my clothes in Home Ec. I'd tell mom it had to be a certain pattern. That helped some. I still hated what we had to wear. Plus-don't forget we were suppose to do makeup and hair like them.
shelley
I had the Presiding Overseer counsel me on the clothes I was wearing. He and his family shopped at Macys. (Upscale clothing store with EXPENSIVE clothes) I was a thrift store haunter. I didn't dress out of date nor unclean. It just wasn't what he approved of. I was pioneering and living on so little money that I got a letter from the IRS telling me I didn't make enough money to file last year and therefore if this year was the same I didnt have to file either. (Bizzare)
So I said to him, "Well Brother (jackass) if you want me to dress better why not take me to Macys with you next time and buy me a suit, until then you'll only have to endure these clothes on me at the meetings because I never see you in service. Any time you'd like to pioneer with me I'd be happy to have you along."
He's now divorced, I am not living the second hand store life and I'm glad I dont have to see his sorry butt anymore.
What a putz.
Still shop wisely though.
W.Once
which one is the witness? they're all drinking... LOL
i never fell in line with what they had in the mags anyways, so i can say quite honestly, no. i would not wear that attire. and if i ever did find myself wearing attire that fell in line with their vision of godliness, it would not matter to me.
Had a very defining moment last weekend - took Mr alw's suits to the second hand shop down the road. It was very liberating - not only to get them out of the wardrobe - we still have 3 left - but to know part of our life has ended - thankfully. My clothes won't fit me - put on so much weight - wouldn't be able to go to a meeting even if my life depended on it!!! alw
i think the wt publications show the best dressed cleanest well presented alchoholic drug addicts ever..
its almost as good an advert as 70s tobacco ads
