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What happened to the old school LDS?
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:00 pm
by _zeezrom
Do ward members still get to learn to make lingerie? Or did this die in the mid 70's along with many other cool things?
http://www.LDS.org/ensign/1971/08/linge ... and-modestIt is exciting and rewarding to create. The creative sense, dormant within many of us, when once awakened may lead us in many directions: to painting, poetry, music, design, sculpture, or to more practical arts related to homemaking, such as cooking and sewing.
The making of lovely lingerie can be a delightful new experience. Here creativity has few bounds. The new lingerie fabrics are gossamer soft and smooth, gentle to the touch, and pretty to look at. Surprisingly, they are easy to work with. The fabrics can be found in almost every color in the rainbow as well as in many appealing prints. Combining two colors or a print and a plain fabric can be very effective. Elastics, laces, and ribbons are available in many yardage shops.
Just a side note: It appears this old Ensign article used to come with photos that were since deleted:
[photos] Barbara Brown Watson, model
Ah, the good old days.
I'm beginning to think more and more that something really screwed up Mormonism in the 80's and 90's. Some prophets might have freaked out and got all Victorian on us or something.
Re: What happened to the old school LDS?
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:08 pm
by _Bob Loblaw
Correlation happened. It's what takes everything good or interesting about Mormonism and turns it into a gray cube of stale oatmeal.
Re: What happened to the old school LDS?
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:19 pm
by _zeezrom
Bob Loblaw wrote:Correlation happened. It's what takes everything good or interesting about Mormonism and turns it into a gray cube of stale oatmeal.
Wasn't it H.B. Lee who started the All-Church Coordinating Council in 1960? I always thought Correlation started before the 70's. Maybe it didn't really get moving until the late 70's?
Mormon women were displaying their homemade lingerie all the way up to 1974 at least.
http://www.LDS.org/ensign/1974/11/news- ... y=lingerieAre you sure it wasn't something from the outside? Maybe changes in how sexuality is portrayed in the media? Maybe the advent of the Internet?
I'm wondering if something freaked the prophets out and made them shut down the creative Relief Society sewing classes.
Re: What happened to the old school LDS?
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:22 pm
by _Bob Loblaw
zeezrom wrote:Wasn't it H.B. Lee who started the All-Church Coordinating Council in 1960? I always thought Correlation started before the 70's. Maybe it didn't really get moving until the late 70's?
Mormon women were displaying their homemade lingerie all the way up to 1974 at least.
http://www.LDS.org/ensign/1974/11/news- ... y=lingerieAre you sure it wasn't something from the outside? Maybe changes in how sexuality is portrayed in the media? Maybe the advent of the Internet?
I'm wondering if something freaked the prophets out and made them shut down the creative Relief Society sewing classes.
Correlation as we know it started in 1971, but it was just the beginning of the process of the blandification of Mormonism.
Re: What happened to the old school LDS?
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:38 pm
by _zeezrom
Bob Loblaw wrote:Correlation as we know it started in 1971, but it was just the beginning of the process of the blandification of Mormonism.
Are you suggesting that correlation inhibits the use of imagination?
Re: What happened to the old school LDS?
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:41 pm
by _Bob Loblaw
zeezrom wrote:Are you suggesting that correlation inhibits the use of imagination?
Perish the thought.
Re: What happened to the old school LDS?
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:58 pm
by _harmony
Why would Relief Society teach something that can be purchased at the new mall? (assuming Victoria's Secret is at the new mall).
Re: What happened to the old school LDS?
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:06 am
by _Quasimodo
harmony wrote:Why would Relief Society teach something that can be purchased at the new mall? (assuming Victoria's Secret is at the new mall).
If there is a Victoria's Secret in the new mall, would someone in SLC please drop by and photograph VS's version of Temple Garments. I'd love to see those.
Re: What happened to the old school LDS?
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:10 am
by _Natsunekko
Another very unpleasant change (in the relief society, at least) came about five years ago. A directive went out that Relief Society's non-Sunday meetings had to be spiritual. What had been a night to be social with other LDS ladies, learn various home-making type things, and (most importantly) do charity work became just another BORING lecture-meeting.
Re: What happened to the old school LDS?
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:14 am
by _zeezrom
Natsunekko wrote:Another very unpleasant change (in the relief society, at least) came about five years ago. A directive went out that Relief Society's non-Sunday meetings had to be spiritual. What had been a night to be social with other LDS ladies, learn various home-making type things, and (most importantly) do charity work became just another BORING lecture-meeting.
Hi Natsunekko!
Yeah, that is a big loss indeed. I'm sorry to hear of it.
I would like to propose that charity work at the Relief Society meetings could be *just as* important as social meetings where you make stuff. For, how can we help others if we are not happy with our own lives? If creating things provides us with a feeling of fulfillment, why not emphasize that even more than charity? Then, you will be fulfilled and ready to help other people later on.