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http://www.ldsliving.com/Church-Discontinuing-Making-Changes-to-Garment-Styles/s/85806

 

My Mum has some choice words about female garments, I don't know if these will do anything about that but what do you think about these changes? For me personally the mesh ones were unpleasant, they ripped easy, you can't scratch your legs and they are so hot! (I wasn't endowed until after I got to the MTC and some nice woman bought me garments and she got the mesh kind:unsure:)

Edited by Duncan
Posted (edited)

The complete announcement directly from the Church's website (though the charts don't seem to rendering correctly...):

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Making Way for New Garments

Beehive Clothing is committed to providing quality garment products that will better meet members’ needs. Based on extensive research and testing, a new garment fabric with improved fit and design is scheduled for release in 2018. In anticipation of bringing new products to our shelves, a few selected products will be discontinued.

Discontinuing Garment Products

   

Women's

Dri Lux top and bottom
DriSilque flare-leg one-piece
DriSilque snug-leg one-piece (petite and tall statures only)

Men's

Cotton-Poly midcalf bottom
Cotton-Poly zipper-front one-piece
Nylon Mesh one-piece
Corban one-piece (tall stature only)

Discontinued styles can be purchased through October 31, 2017. 

 

FAQs

  • Q. How did you select the garments you are discontinuing?
    A. Each discontinued style was carefully selected based on customer satisfaction scores, redundant features, global use, and feedback from current customers.
  • Q. Why are you discontinuing these garments?
    A. The discontinued styles will free up resources to help prepare for new garments that will better meet members’ needs. Church leaders have approved this approach.
  • Q. I am not sure which garment I wear. How can I find out?
    A. Sign in with your LDS Account at store.lds.org. In the search bar, type the number from the top of your garment tag and hit Enter to see your garment name. 

    Or click here for information about each fabric type.

    Or if you live near a Distribution Center or Deseret Book store, the associates can help you identify which garment you wear.
  • Q. What are good replacements for the garments being discontinued?
    A. Here are some recommended replacement garment options:

Women

Discontinued Product Replacement Options
Same Fabric Same Style Same Stature
Dri Lux top and bottom   • Cotton-Poly top and bottom 
• 100% Cotton top and bottom
 
DriSilque flare-leg one-piece • DriSilque snug-leg one-piece
• DriSilque top and bottom
   
DriSilque snug-leg one-piece
(petite and tall statures)
• DriSilque top and bottom • DriSilque snug-leg one-piece (regular) • Many top and bottom options

Men

Discontinued Product Replacement Options
Same Fabric Same Style Same Stature
Cotton-Poly midcalf bottom • Cotton-Poly brief • Thermax provides added warmth if needed  
Cotton-Poly zipper-front one-piece • Cotton-Poly one-piece
• Cotton-Poly top and bottom
• Corban zipper-front one-piece  
Nylon Mesh one-piece • Nylon Mesh top and bottom • Corban one-piece
• Cotton-Poly one-piece
 
Corban one-piece (tall stature) • Corban round neck and boxer • Corban one-piece (regular) • Cotton-Poly one-piece

For information about garment fabric similarities, see the Garment Fabric Feature Guide.

  • Q. Which one-piece garments will continue to be available?
  • A.
    • Women
    • Cotton-Poly Jersey (regular stature only)
    • DriSilque snug-leg (regular stature only)
    • Men
    • Corban zipper-front (regular stature only)
    • Corban (regular stature only)
    • Cotton-Poly Jersey (regular and tall statures)
  • Q. How many discontinued garments can I order?
  • A. Order as many garments as needed by October 31, 2017. In case of back order, orders will be filled as product is available. Orders placed after October 31 will be filled as supplies last.
  • Q. What is the new garment and when will it be available?
  • A. A new fabric with an updated design for women will be available early next year. It is a four-way stretch cotton with no lace, providing a snug fit.
  • Q. What happened to Extra Support garments?
  • A. Extra Support garments, both white and military styles, were discontinued earlier in 2017 due to a problem with fabric quality and subsequent shortage.
  • Q. Where can I give feedback about my garments or these changes?
  • A. Sign in with your LDS Account, click on Garments and Temple Clothing > Garments, and then choose any category and any product. Use the Clothing Feedback link on the garment product page.

Unless I'm reading this wrong, it doesn't appear that I, as a man, have much to look forward to ... and I certainly have nothing to lose.

Edited by Hamba Tuhan
Posted
48 minutes ago, Duncan said:

For me personally the mesh ones were unpleasant, they ripped easy, you can't scratch your legs and they are so hot! (I wasn't endowed until after I got to the MTC and some nice woman bought me garments and she got the mesh kind:unsure:)

I tried one pair of the nylon mesh garments when first endowed. I gave them to my first mission companion. The hair on my thighs would poke out the holes and then pull as I walked, and I didn't like the lack of stretch. I loved the cotton mesh for the few years that they were available, but it's true that they didn't last long. I've worn Dri Lux since it was introduced and generally have no complaints, though I sometimes wish the bottoms were a bit looser in cut (they are supposed to be 'boxers', after all), and for some reason the sleeves on the tops are always about twice as big around as the sleeves on the shirts that I wear over them...

Posted
8 hours ago, Duncan said:

http://www.ldsliving.com/Church-Discontinuing-Making-Changes-to-Garment-Styles/s/85806

 

My Mum has some choice words about female garments, I don't know if these will do anything about that but what do you think about these changes? For me personally the mesh ones were unpleasant, they ripped easy, you can't scratch your legs and they are so hot! (I wasn't endowed until after I got to the MTC and some nice woman bought me garments and she got the mesh kind:unsure:)

I'm honestly am pretty content with my garment selection now. They fixed my biggest problems with G's the last time. In several styles the "waistline" was more like the "bra line" it was so overly long. I would roll them down because it would bother me and was ridiculous. I have a really small waist as is and even the petites have the same problem (the smaller version of the size I wear...I don't know if men have equivalents).

Now, the few new ones I have are great. They hit right above my hip. I also have disproportionately long legs so most of the garments hit somewhere mid-thigh. The tops sleeves as slightly more capped so some of my dresses and shirts peek garment from time to time if i don't wear the right ones. I definitely mix and match tops and bottoms. 

I prefer mesh and drisilque in the summer and carinesa when it's not hot. I hate cotton poly bottoms. But they're the majority of my tops. 

These discontinuations have basically no effect on me. 

 

With luv,

BD

Posted

I really liked the previous style of carinesa, when they had A and B waist sizes.  The current ones are too tight in the legs and too loose around the waist, so I can't wear them at all.  At least they fixed the rise on the DriSilque.

 

Posted

I tend to mix and match.

Dri-Lux tops, Corban bottoms.

However, at one time I "made" my own tops. Marks & Spencers were selling really high quality Lycra stretch white T-shirt tops. I cut out the labels and sewed in the symbols. Easily the most comfortable, and expensive, garments ever.

Posted (edited)

Mesh is the only kind of bottoms I wear, its too blasted hot in Texas to wear anything else.

Luckily the mesh they are discontinuing is the one piece -- didn't know they still made one pieces.

Y'all do realize you can special order G's right? - call them to get the 'measurements needed' handout. We do it all the time as we're not 'standard' sized people. I'm long legged and short waisted and the standard sized ones just don't fit comfortably

 

Edited by mnn727
Posted

I always mix and match tops and bottoms.  I would cry rivers of tears if they discontinued mesh bottoms though.  I love those things and can't stand to wear any other type.

I like the carinesa tops but they are so horribly hot that i can't really stand to wear them in the summer.  My typical choice for tops  is the dry silk stuff.  You can't even tell you have them on.

Didn't they just rework the garments two years ago?  I'm surprised they are doing it again already.

Posted (edited)
6 minutes ago, bluebell said:

I always mix and match tops and bottoms.  I would cry rivers of tears if they discontinued mesh bottoms though.  I love those things and can't stand to wear any other type.

I like the carinesa tops but they are so horribly hot that i can't really stand to wear them in the summer.  My typical choice for tops  is the dry silk stuff.  You can't even tell you have them on.

Didn't they just rework the garments two years ago?  I'm surprised they are doing it again already.

apparently there have been some complaints, I never ever thought to mix and match hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Edited by Duncan
Posted
Just now, bluebell said:

I always mix and match tops and bottoms.  I would cry rivers of tears if they discontinued mesh bottoms though.  I love those things and can't stand to wear any other type.

I like the carinesa tops but they are so horribly hot that i can't really stand to wear them in the summer.  My typical choice for tops  is the dry silk stuff.  You can't even tell you have them on.

Didn't they just rework the garments two years ago?  I'm surprised they are doing it again already.

I can't stand carinesa tops, they are so constricting. But I do like the bottoms because they stay down. Other garments always roll up, talk about a panty line. But haven't tried the mesh bottom. Maybe they would work. BTW, I don't know if I should even be wearing garments with my faith transition. But I don't like having nothing between my bra and skin, I'm so use to the garment top layer. Also, I'm so use to wearing the garment bottom, I can't change to regular underwear. Of course there is that chance I can gain belief again. 

Posted
5 minutes ago, Tacenda said:

I can't stand carinesa tops, they are so constricting. But I do like the bottoms because they stay down. Other garments always roll up, talk about a panty line. But haven't tried the mesh bottom. Maybe they would work. BTW, I don't know if I should even be wearing garments with my faith transition. But I don't like having nothing between my bra and skin, I'm so use to the garment top layer. Also, I'm so use to wearing the garment bottom, I can't change to regular underwear. Of course there is that chance I can gain belief again. 

I don't think a faith crisis means you have to stop wearing them. :) 

Posted

I have been washing my Dad's garments for him.  They have certainly changed a lot!

Posted
8 minutes ago, Bernard Gui said:

Oh for the days of the wool wrist to ankle ties! Those were for real men.

I can't imagine wearing those in hot climates,  the fifth level of hell for heat

Posted
10 minutes ago, Bernard Gui said:

Oh for the days of the wool wrist to ankle ties! Those were for real men.

  •  “The Lord has given unto us garments of the holy priesthood, and you know what that means. And yet there are those of us who mutilate them, in order that we may follow the foolish, vain and (permit me to say) indecent practices of the world. In order that such people may imitate fashions, they will not hesitate to mutilate that which should be held by them the most sacred of all things in the world, next to their own virtue, next to their own purity of life. They should hold these things sacred, unchanged and unaltered from the very pattern in which God gave them. Let us have the moral courage to stand against the opinions of fashion, and especially where fashion compels us to break a covenant and so commit a grievous sin. (Improvement Era, President Joseph F. Smith, 9: 813
Posted
8 minutes ago, Duncan said:

I can't imagine wearing those in hot climates,  the fifth level of hell for heat

I hope the heat wasn't like it is now! Global warning anyone? I can't imagine...

Posted
1 hour ago, Tacenda said:

I can't stand carinesa tops, they are so constricting. But I do like the bottoms because they stay down. Other garments always roll up, talk about a panty line. But haven't tried the mesh bottom. Maybe they would work. BTW, I don't know if I should even be wearing garments with my faith transition. But I don't like having nothing between my bra and skin, I'm so use to the garment top layer. Also, I'm so use to wearing the garment bottom, I can't change to regular underwear. Of course there is that chance I can gain belief again. 

Haha...that's part of the reason I LIKE the mesh and drisilque especially. They ride with my dresses/shorts so I'm less likely to flash people some G's. 

You can still wear garments if you still see yourself mormon. I figure at some point if you were to entirely leave the church it would probably not be appropriate. 

 

With luv,

BD

Posted
2 hours ago, Tacenda said:

I can't stand carinesa tops, they are so constricting. But I do like the bottoms because they stay down. Other garments always roll up, talk about a panty line. But haven't tried the mesh bottom. Maybe they would work. BTW, I don't know if I should even be wearing garments with my faith transition. But I don't like having nothing between my bra and skin, I'm so use to the garment top layer. Also, I'm so use to wearing the garment bottom, I can't change to regular underwear. Of course there is that chance I can gain belief again.

Regardless of belief, do you still feel that you made a promise to God that you would wear them?
If so, it doesn't matter what you believe about the Church.  You are keeping a promise you made to God, not to the Church.

Posted
1 hour ago, Tacenda said:

I hope the heat wasn't like it is now! Global warning anyone? I can't imagine...

it's all global warming up in here!!!!!!!!!!! even my ears are crispy!  we've had such wonky weather for some years now

Posted
4 hours ago, mnn727 said:

Mesh is the only kind of bottoms I wear, its too blasted hot in Texas to wear anything else.

Luckily the mesh they are discontinuing is the one piece -- didn't know they still made one pieces.

Y'all do realize you can special order G's right? - call them to get the 'measurements needed' handout. We do it all the time as we're not 'standard' sized people. I'm long legged and short waisted and the standard sized ones just don't fit comfortably

 

You can also request a material not generally offered in a particular style.

Last time I did it (all cotton in the thermal style for sleeping in) it was free because it was for medical reasons (anything else itches).

Posted
4 hours ago, mnn727 said:

 

Luckily the mesh they are discontinuing is the one piece -- didn't know they still made one pieces.

 

 

My thought on reading that was how sad that almost everyone who was alive (and stuck in their garment-wearing habits) at the time of the switch to 2-piece must now be dead.

Posted

I know of some younger people who like the one piece because they can't stand elastic.

Posted
16 hours ago, Duncan said:

http://www.ldsliving.com/Church-Discontinuing-Making-Changes-to-Garment-Styles/s/85806

 

My Mum has some choice words about female garments, I don't know if these will do anything about that but what do you think about these changes? For me personally the mesh ones were unpleasant, they ripped easy, you can't scratch your legs and they are so hot! (I wasn't endowed until after I got to the MTC and some nice woman bought me garments and she got the mesh kind:unsure:)

As long as my cotton-poly remain, I am a happy camper. Here in the Hot and Hummid South, cannot endure much. 

Posted
Just now, Bill "Papa" Lee said:

As long as my cotton-poly remain, I am a happy camper. Here in the Hot and Hummid South, cannot endure much. 

that's what I wear too. I trashed what was left of the mesh variety  when I came home from the field and haven't looked back!

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