Special Ordering Temple Garments
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 2:02 am
Have any of you ever special-ordered garments for any reason, and if so, how did it go for you? I have basically stopped wearing my garments for reasons that I will get into in a minute. And I think I have literally tried every fabric and style, including one-piece, maternity, and nursing tops, and some men's styles (which don't really work under women's clothes). There are three problems that I have with garments. First, the cups don't fit (even the full cup is too small for me). The fit might not seem like that big of a deal, but when I'm doing medical things that require concentration and that require me not to be twitchy, I really need my clothes to not be moving around and having things pop out of them. I've tried wearing a bra under them instead of over them, but that still doesn't work well because the tops are too short because of the cups not fitting, and that makes the waistband on the bottoms touch my skin, which leads into problem number 2 - I get contact dermatitis from the lace and from the elastic in the waistbands (it's been diagnosed by a legitimate doctor who gave me steroid cream and told me to stop wearing them). This was actually the main reason I stopped wearing them, because my doctor told me to. I had this really bad rash around my belly button, around my neck, around my upper arms, and around my knees - right where the lace and elastic are. If I'm going to try to wear them again, I need to get some that don't have lace and that have either no waistband or a covered waistband (and in case you're wondering, the underwear I have replaced them with has no elastic around the waist and legs). Problem number three is more of a minor problem - when I'm having a bad flare-up of my GI issues, the waistband is in exactly the wrong spot and just makes the pain worse. That could simply be solved by wearing one-pieces if problems one and two didn't exist.
So I was thinking about this today, because every now and then I try putting them on again and end up taking them off after a few hours and today was one of those days. And I had the thought that if I could get some one-piece garments with no lace and with a cup size that's bigger than the full cup (and the one-pieces don't even come in full-cup, by the way), that might solve all of my problems and I could wear them again. I've talked to the distribution center workers about the cup issue in the past, and I basically got accused of wanting to wear immodest clothes, which didn't even make sense, but that seems to be the default reaction when people complain about how garments fit. So I am just wondering if anyone has experience with calling the phone number to special order them. Is it worth trying, or are they going to accuse me of wanting to be immodest? Will they even make them without the lace? The lace is kind of a deal-breaker. I can wear them for short periods of time without developing contact dermatitis, but I am scared to have that lace on my skin 24/7 again because it took about a month of putting steroid cream on it (after I had stopped wearing my garments) to get rid of that stupid rash. Any thoughts? It's been several months since I stopped wearing them, and I don't feel like it's necessarily bad for me to not be wearing them because I really think that God understands why I'm not wearing them (and I'm not convinced that God cares as deeply about our underwear as we think), but I honestly love the symbolism of temple garments and for the last decade they have really been a source of spiritual comfort for me, and if there's a way for me to be able to wear them again, I would really like to.
So I was thinking about this today, because every now and then I try putting them on again and end up taking them off after a few hours and today was one of those days. And I had the thought that if I could get some one-piece garments with no lace and with a cup size that's bigger than the full cup (and the one-pieces don't even come in full-cup, by the way), that might solve all of my problems and I could wear them again. I've talked to the distribution center workers about the cup issue in the past, and I basically got accused of wanting to wear immodest clothes, which didn't even make sense, but that seems to be the default reaction when people complain about how garments fit. So I am just wondering if anyone has experience with calling the phone number to special order them. Is it worth trying, or are they going to accuse me of wanting to be immodest? Will they even make them without the lace? The lace is kind of a deal-breaker. I can wear them for short periods of time without developing contact dermatitis, but I am scared to have that lace on my skin 24/7 again because it took about a month of putting steroid cream on it (after I had stopped wearing my garments) to get rid of that stupid rash. Any thoughts? It's been several months since I stopped wearing them, and I don't feel like it's necessarily bad for me to not be wearing them because I really think that God understands why I'm not wearing them (and I'm not convinced that God cares as deeply about our underwear as we think), but I honestly love the symbolism of temple garments and for the last decade they have really been a source of spiritual comfort for me, and if there's a way for me to be able to wear them again, I would really like to.