Celestial Slamtoons updated 10/20/2005
Attention: The Latter Day Lampoon has changed to The Salamander Society
October 2005 General Conference
Apostle Jeffrey R. Holland urged young women not to "slavishly follow the whims of fads and fashions." They should avoid clothing that is too tight, too short or improperly revealing in any manner, including bare midriffs, Holland said.
Young women should dress respectfully for church, he said; "Clothing or footwear should not be expensive, but neither should it appear that we are on our way to the beach."
Some women are setting bad examples for their daughters and other teens, he said. "If adults are preoccupied with appearance - implanting and tucking and nipping and remodeling everything that can be remodeled - those pressures and anxieties will most certainly seep through to children."
He urged young women to accept themselves and their bodies, shape and style and not try to look like someone else. "One would truly need a 'great and spacious' makeup kit to compete with beauty as portrayed in the media all around us," Holland said. "Yet at the end of the day there would still be those 'in the attitude of mocking and pointing their fingers,' as [The Book of Mormon] says, because however much one tries in the world of glamour, it will never be enough."
