The Sacred Undergarment That Has Mormon Women Buzzing

The New York Times ^ | May 29, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET | Lauren Jackson

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“I want them now. I will get them at all costs,” said one influencer based in Hawaii.

Some Mormon women are obsessed with something illicit. They’re phoning friends, calling in favors and paying for international shipping to get it: a sacred tank top.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has redesigned its temple garments, which are worn by faithful members under their clothes. The garments are effectively underwear that until recently, looked like white short-sleeve shirts and knee-length shorts. Now, the church has removed the sleeve on some designs, turning them into tank tops.

The church is releasing the tops to its more than 17 million members around the world in phases. Last October, it quietly announced that the new garments would first be available to members in “hot, humid” climates like those in Africa and Asia.

They aren’t sanctioned for wear in the United States yet, but that hasn’t stopped American influencers from sourcing them — and showing them off in recent videos online.

“I was like: I want them now. I will get them at all costs. I will fly to Japan if I need to,” said Andrea Fausett, a 31-year-old influencer based in Hawaii. She secured a few tops from a friend in Asia. Other women told The New York Times that they had asked friends or family in Thailand and the Philippines to mail them.

Kim Austin, a 33-year-old consultant living in Provo, Utah, said that she wore the new garments under a sleeveless dress to church, and that women in her congregation asked how they could get them. “Utah women will stop at nothing,” she said. Alyssa and McKenna Banks, sisters who run...

[dayglored]

A sleeveless top? How risque! What a scandal!

[dayglored]

Actually it won’t be a scandal until they turn the “knee-length shorts” into booty shorts.

[HombreSecreto]

Why can’t they go to BrighamYoungsSecret.com and get them online?

/s /s /s

[dayglored]

> Why can’t they go to BrighamYoungsSecret.com and get them online?

The site might be offline, along with Victoria's Secret:

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[Tell It Right]

[Celtic Conservative]

The famous “magic underwear”. I thought it was just an urban legend.

CC

[Saintgermain]

I have an idea; how about cutting the sleeves off one which has them, any seamstress worth her name could be doing it easily unless such a garment needs a special blessing or endorsement? Just asking for a friend.

[thegagline]

And to think that they call Hellenism “Greek Mythology.”

[Fido969]

Does it take batteries?

[vpintheak]

But they aren’t a cult... just have to have that sacred underwear...

[NorthMountain]

“Cult” ==> “Any religion the speaker wishes to disparage.”

[vikingd00d]

>>Why can’t they go to BrighamYoungsSecret.com and get them online?

BrighamYoungsSecret only carries children’s sizes.

[ansel12]

Do you plan on becoming a god when you die?

[NorthMountain]

Irrelevant, and my religious affiliation is no secret on this forum. You can answer your own question.

My assessment of the practical meaning of “cult” in American popular English remains. In practice, it’s just another four-letter word for “something [I] don’t like”.

[ansel12]

I don’t know your faith or if you belong to a cult, that’s why I asked the question.

[MotorCityBuck]

Spot on.👍

[NorthMountain]

List all the religions that you dislike. Since “cult”, in practical use, has no objective meaning, I cannot help you with that. Or you could use the search feature of this forum and see which religious “caucus” I occasionally post in.

As for your original question ... as I said, it’s irrelevant to my contention that “cult” is just another meaningless four-letter word.

[Sirius Lee]

My assessment of the practical meaning of “cult” in American popular English remains. In practice, it’s just another four-letter word for “something [I] don’t like”.

I don't like asparagus and will proudly claim myself not a member of that cult.

[ansel12]

I guess it was a hard question.