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Sect Style: Flamboyant Modesty

Women's uber-modest fashion clearly sets polygamists apart

By Kate Rockwood,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 27, 2008 11:19 AM CDT

(Newser) – The women’s clothes from the Texas polygamist compound call to mind both Little House on the Prairie and prison garb. Yet there’s something elaborate, or even flamboyant, in the carefully crafted styles that set these women so distinctly at odds with modern culture,...   Read full story »

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